exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and …

This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP … growth rates of importing countries play an important role in explaining how fast exports fall below the values of the same …

China has defied the declining trend in domestic content in exports in many countries. We study China's rising domestic … content in exports using firm and customs transaction-level data. Our approach embraces firm heterogeneity and hence reduces …'s domestic content in exports to increase from 65% to 70% in 2000-2007. Such substitution was induced by the country's trade and …

. 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 …