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 …

drop in exports to this market in the subsequent years. The results are robust to the use of different sets of firm- and …

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 …

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 …

We ask whether the productivity advantage of internationalized firms documented by the international trade literature …

(average export per firm) are important in explaining the level of exports and its changes over time. More heterogeneity in …

job destruction in low-productivity firms and job creation in high-productivity firms. In contrast, the net effect of … reductions in Chinese input tariffs is limited to job destruction in low-productivity ordinary exporters. …

central hubs and peripheral countries and sectors, and examine how these changes impact firm productivity. Using cross … productivity growth of smaller firms, nonfrontier businesses, and of firms in smaller economies and in post-2004 EU member … (centrality weighted) average productivity of buyers matters for the productivity of firms in our data overall, however this is …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …