their productivity draws at the entry stage and explore the implications in closed and open economy. By allowing firms to … choose the size of their investment in innovation projects of unknown quality, the model yields a Pareto distribution for … productivity with a shape parameter that depends on industry-level characteristics. A novel result is that export opportunities, by …

productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export … services and manufacturing for 2010-2014. Our findings are threefold. First, high productivity is an important, but not a … sufficient condition for exporting. Firm size (substitute for productivity), import status, and foreign ownership are also …

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 …

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 …