substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from … 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate …

revenue ranges between 1-31% depending on the product category in the food industry. Overall, the demand shifters, taste and … product quality explain twice as much of the variation in export revenues than cost. …

separates taste from quality and productivity (TFPQ) at the firm-product level. Export data by destination countries allow us to … of taste, quality and costs. We find that taste is very important and explains about 50 % of the variation in export … revenue. Productivity (TFPQ) differences between firm-products become more prominent than taste in explaining export success …

changes in non-price factors (quality in a broad sense) for a set of nine large emerging economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile …

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

index that adjusts for changes in the set of competitors (variety) and changes in non-price factors (quality in a broad … competitive position when accounting for non-price factors. Oil exports account for strong improvement in Russia's non …

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 …

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … smaller in magnitude for higher quality exports. We find strong support for the predictions of the model using a unique data … set of Argentinean firm-level wine exports combined with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality. …

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 …

Recent empirical studies argue that traditional trade models ignore product quality, usually leading to bias in price … quantifies the effect of quality on Brazilian imports. For that, we estimate import demand equations, including a proxy for the … quality of imported goods, according to pooled data panel. Results show that price affects the demand for Brazilian imports …