关键词: 中国出口产品质量, 嵌套Logit模型, 微观数据, 要素密集度

Abstract: Based on Khandelwal’s idea (2010) about measuring the quality of export products and nested logit model in Berry (1994), this paper constructs a theoretical framework in measuring the quality of Chinese export product. Measurement results show that: the quality of the overall level of China's manufacturing industry shows a slowly rising trend, but it has different industrial characteristics. Besides this, the empirical investigation on export quality determinants is carried out in several dimensions. The following conclusion is as follows: when China's per capita income is relatively high , it is a significant positive correlation with the quality of export products; with the increase of the share of general trade , its contribution on the quality of the export exceeds that of processing trade; the contribution of domestic R&D is bigger in labor-intensive products, much smaller in capital-intensive products; the role of human capital to the quality of export products is just the opposite; the influence of investment mode on export product quality is closely related to trade mode. Finally, the paper argues that the initiatives should be done combining FDI with general trade; further increasing R&D level in traditional labor-intensive industries is an important way to promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure; cultivating actively high-quality human capital that appropriates the actual needs is urgent.

Key words: China Export Product Quality, Nested Logit Model, Micro-Level Data, Factor Intensity