This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …

(average export per firm) are important in explaining the level of exports and its changes over time. More heterogeneity in … multinational firms, the import behavior of firms, and the extent to which heterogeneity is endogenous to firms. choices, but some …

significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use world service export supply shocks, which we allocate to firms based …

with their parents' export products, at entry spinoffs access 51 percent more parent markets than exporting firms in the …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms … export to low-income countries, ii) exporting to low-income countries is mostly coupled to exporting to high-income countries …, and iii) firms that switch to export to markets with higher potential are younger than firms that switch to export to both …