) empirical regularities can arise from the interplay between (endogenous) cross-firm heterogeneity in product quality and cross …-country heterogeneity in quality consumption. To test this conjecture, we propose a new strategy to proxy for product quality that allows to … exploit some unique features of our dataset. Our results strongly suggest that rms producing higher-quality products tend to …

data with information on prices and novel estimates of quality. We organize the empirical analysis around a version of the … endogenous growth model with expanding variety, in which inputs are allowed to be heterogeneous in terms of quality. In line with …

) empirical regularities can arise from the interplay between (endogenous) cross-firm heterogeneity in product quality and cross …-country heterogeneity in quality consumption. To test this conjecture, we propose a new strategy to proxy for product quality that allows to … exploit some unique features of our dataset. Our results strongly suggest that firms producing higher-quality products tend 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 …

-firms models, we extend the Melitz’s (2003) model by allowing for endogenous product quality and for non-iceberg trade costs. Under …

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 …

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 …