1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate … consumer taste using a control function approach and perform a decomposition of export revenues of firm-products to establish … the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find …

1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate … consumer taste using a control function approach and perform a decomposition of export revenues of firm-products to establish … the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find …

. Therefore, the current trend of reduction in tariffs on agricultural exports not only generates a positive welfare effect in the …

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the … years 1989-2001. Earlier CD-ROMs distributed by the NBER described data on U.S. imports and exports from 1972-1994, and …

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the … years 1989-2001. Earlier CD-ROMs distributed by the NBER described data on U.S. imports and exports from 1972-1994, and …