show that distance matters for cross-border lending, especially for the SMEs. In contrast to the policy of harmonization …

estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks. …

. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher … quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the effect is … large: up to nine percentage points difference in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports …

product quality explain twice as much of the variation in export revenues than cost. …

1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate … the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …

-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit …

capital gains tax on these two decision margins and test our theoretical prediction using a bivariate probit model on a sample …