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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …