model. By using direct measures of quality, we can recover estimates of parameters from a Melitz-based model of … heterogeneous firms. We then regress averages of the quality, price, and quantity shipped to a country on measures of its … attractiveness and entry costs. Champagne exhibits quality-sorting: more attractive markets tend to have lower average qualities and …

We consider the impact of low-wage countries’ competition on the quality content of high-wage countries’ exports. We … develop a new method that uses firm-level data to measure quality changes in sectoral exports. Over 1995-2005, we measure a 11 …% increase in the mean quality of France’s aggregate exports. Quality upgrading is driven by a reallocation of demand in favor of …

existing similar datasets in terms of geographical coverage, quality of measurement and number of variables provided. …

This paper questions whether the overseas expansion of a country’s retailers fosters overall bilateral exports towards … model with data on bilateral exports on a large panel of countries and the foreign sales of world’s largest one hundred … country on its exports to those markets. This outcome is far from being trivial, as most products sold in retailers foreign …