1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate … consumer taste using a control function approach and perform a decomposition of export revenues of firm-products to establish … the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find …

. We combine information on rejections with Chinese firm-level export data. Border rejections amplify the turnover among … exports from big and more productive exporters. …

We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may … improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process … technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on …

in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. We subject this theoretical prediction to a … reality check drawing upon the World Banks Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 developing … countries to all destinations. We find that around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is along the …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … whether preferential access boosts exports of eligible products in general and apparel specifically. The end of the Multi …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a …

This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms' exports. Using detailed information on the content … of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the … depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …

-market price spreads. This is relevant for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. LNG transportation capacity is limited in the short … capture part of the price spread. We proceed to develop a method to value LNG exports under conditions of endogenous … value of LNG exports from the US to Japan. Our analysis shows that when transportation costs are correctly treated as …