It has become common to measure the quality of exports using their unit export value (UEV). Applications of this method … that export quality and export price (the most natural interpretation of UEV) are not merely correlated but that they …. -- export quality ; unit export value ; intra-industry trade ; competitiveness …

The paper applies the gravity model of international trade in its analysis of German exports. The added value of our … new insights into the analysis of German export performance. Our panel dataset includes German exports to 176 countries … European neighbourhood relative to the world average. Exports are sensitive to both the real exchange rate movements and the …

The aim of this paper is to compare the price elasticity of import demand in the destination markets of Italian exports … to the price elasticity in the destination markets of the other main euro-area countries' exports. To this end, we use …-product combination) by Broda, Greenfield and Weinstein (2006). We find that Italy exports to markets which have, on average, a lower …

.S., Japan, Italy and Spain. Pricing to market is more prevalent in exports of chemicals and fertilisers than in machinery …

.S., Japan, Italy and Spain. Pricing to market is more prevalent in exports of chemicals and fertilisers than in machinery …

found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the … manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. This note uses recently available comparable high quality firm level data for six European countries (including Italy …

study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent …

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …

.S., Japan, Italy and Spain. Pricing to market is more prevalent in exports of chemicals and fertilisers than in machinery …