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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …