TY - BOOK ID - 133599629 TI - OECD Imports : Diversification and Quality Search AU - Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa AU - Cadot, Olivier AU - Kukenova, Madina PY - 2010 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Adverse selection KW - Barriers to entry KW - Contestability KW - Debt Markets KW - Economic Theory & Research KW - Emerging markets KW - Export growth KW - Exports KW - Externalities KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Income KW - Income levels KW - International Trade KW - Labor Policies KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Market Entry KW - Market share KW - Markets and Market Access KW - Microfinance KW - Monopoly KW - Monopoly price KW - Product quality KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Substitution KW - Supplier KW - Suppliers KW - Supply chains KW - Volatility UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133599629 AB - This paper explores the evolution of OECD imports over time and as a function of income levels, measuring the concentration of those imports across origin countries at the product level. The authors find evidence of diversification followed, in the last years of the sample period (post-2000), by a slight re-concentration. This re-concentration is entirely explained by the growing importance of Chinese products in OECD imports. They also find evidence of relatively more volatile concentration levels for differentiated goods, consistent with a simple model of adverse selection and screening of suppliers by OECD buyers. Finally, they find that "accession" to OECD markets occurs directly (rather than after acquiring prior export experience on other markets) for more than half of the (extra-OECD) exporter/product pairs, but that one to eight years of experience enhances subsequent survival on OECD markets. Exports that reach OECD markets after more than eight years of experience elsewhere tend to survive less. ER -