revenue ranges between 1-31% depending on the product category in the food industry. Overall, the demand shifters, taste and … product quality explain twice as much of the variation in export revenues than cost. …

contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean … variation in sales, while the remaining part is equally accounted for by average attributes and their dispersion. Quality is the … distribution of firms’ sales, especially due to heterogeneity in quality. These countries also tend to be more likely to host …

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … smaller in magnitude for higher quality exports. We find strong support for the predictions of the model using a unique data … set of Argentinean firm-level wine exports combined with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality. …

exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative … increase in French exports to the new members. While workers benefited overall, those competing most directly with imports …

a trade model with heterogeneous exporters and endogenous quality choice. The model predicts that financial development … firms, especially in sectors with high external finance dependence and large scope for quality differentiation. This effect … variation in the skewness of exports across countries and sectors …

Starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) explains why individual … productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to export. In this paper we build a model along Melitz’s lines to show … international markets. We show that firms with low productivity may still be able to penetrate foreign markets provided they have …

contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean … variation in sales, while the remaining part is equally accounted for by average attributes and their dispersion. Quality is the … distribution of firms’ sales, especially due to heterogeneity in quality. These countries also tend to be more likely to host …