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Record W4417500704 · doi:10.61173/95wz8a22

Quantitative Verification of Cost-effectiveness Advantages: Research on China’s Smartphone Export Based on Demand Elasticity Model (2023–2024)

2025· article· W4417500704 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueFinance & Economics · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicInnovation Diffusion and Forecasting
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsElasticity (physics)Price elasticity of demandMobile phoneCore (optical fiber)PhoneQuarter (Canadian coin)Supply and demand

Abstract

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In recent years, Chinese smartphone brands have achieved remarkable and far-reaching success in the global market, capturing significant market share and reshaping industry dynamics. This research aims to quantitatively verify that “cost-effectiveness” is its core competitive advantage from the perspective of economics, employing rigorous data analysis and theoretical frameworks to demonstrate how Chinese manufacturers deliver superior value propositions compared to international competitors. By collecting market data from IDC, Canalys and other institutions from the first quarter of 2023 to the second quarter of 2024, this article first describes the trend of China’s mobile phone exports, and then constructs a demand price elasticity model for empirical analysis. The calculation results show that the demand elasticity coefficient of Chinese smartphones is about -1. 8, indicating that the demand is elastic, and the price reduction strategy can effectively stimulate sales growth. The case study further confirms the success of Xiaomi with this model. Finally, this article discusses the challenges faced by this model and puts forward future prospects.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.184
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.213
GPT teacher head0.446
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it