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 …

internationalization of small, often high quality, firms. Italy is well known for gourmet food, but is despecialized, since it has a …This paper offers a firm level perspective of global value chain participation in the food industry. Exploiting a very …, we characterize the food industry, describing its main strengths and weaknesses, and analyze the links between the …

international price of Argentine exports of agro-manufactures to increase by between 7.5 and 15.4 percent. I explore two poverty … effects caused by these prices changes: on food expenditure and on wages. Using a household budget survey, I estimate the … impact of higher food prices on the Argentine poverty line. Using a labor force survey, I estimate the responses of wages to …

The effect of food standards on agricultural trade flows remains unclear. We contribute to the debate with a unique … dataset that contains the number of food processing firms of 88 countries from 2008 to 2013 that are certified with the … International Featured Standard (IFS). Based on a theoretical framework that combines Melitz-type firm heterogeneity with quality …