's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across … destinations and across exporting firms, and of the time-series variation in aggregate exports and its relation to time …-series variation in the export supply decisions of firms. It is found that the cross-sectional variation of exports is mostly accounted …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

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 …

1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate … the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …

1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate … the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

new exporters experienced a surge in productivity in the initial year of exports the effect dissipates as soon as the …Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between export- ing and productivity this paper … perfirming firms self-selecting into exports and multinational production, exporting (multina- tional production) further …

Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between exporting and productivity this paper … addition to good firms self-selecting into exports and multinational production exporting (multinational production) further … conclusive evidence of learning-by-exporting. Namely, although new exporters experienced a surge in productivity in the initial …