's producers to upgrade the quality of the goods that they export. The paper first documents two stylized facts regarding the … effect of trade liberalization on export prices and its relation with product differentiation. Next, the paper develops a … raise its export price in industries where the scope for quality differentiation is large while to lower its export price in …

export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 … trade liberalization experience of China following its accession to the WTO in 2001. We build a multi-sector heterogenous … impacts include changes in the probability of entry into the export market, the fraction of firms that export and the share of …

-country Ricardian model to examine the extent to which these de facto export tax changes benefited China and nullified the benefits to … based on tariffs alone. We also use our model to solve for China’s optimal export taxes and calculate the impact of optimal … export taxes on China and the rest of the world …

liberalization on export prices. Next, an analytic framework is developed that relates a firm's choice of quality to its access to … imported intermediates. In the model a reduction in import tariffs induces a firm to increase export quality and to raise its … export price in industries where the scope for quality differentiation is large while to lower its export price in industries …

wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill … India. We show that since the withdrawal of the quota, the industry has witnessed unprecedented concentration of firm …