culture, and quality upgrading costs, associated to market similarities in income level, are found to be significant. Finally …

the set of imported goods and the quality to vary. This variety-, set-of-products-, and quality-adjusted import price … gains from quality. Using HS 07 (vegetables) as our benchmark group of products with unchanged quality, we find significant … gains from quality for Germany, France, Italy and the UK between 1995 and 2010. Although these results are not invariant to …

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 …

market. Coupled with a constant profit share in domestic sectors this makes European exports vulnerable to vagaries of … past. In fact econometric evidence is not totally at odds with this view. However, neither exports in a large European … large extent can be passed on to prices. On the other hand exports seem to be heavily subject to the vicissitudes of …

In his seminal paper, starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) nicely … accounts for the stylized fact that the level of individual productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to … depends on both productivity and net worth, and both are heterogeneous across firms. We show that firms with low productivity …

examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer … average productivity with only a muted effect on wages or margins. Owing to the exit of firms and the increase in productivity …

studies using highly disaggregated data emphasize variations in product quality as an explanation as to why firms charge … food supply chain. The results offer new information about the behavior of exporting firms. Hence, for the food …