The globalization of production and trade has significantly increased quality uncertainty faced by the consumers. This study uses a large firm-product-country level panel data involving 2922 multinational enterprise affiliates producing in China and exporting to 25 countries to investigate the...

This paper uses a large micro-level data set to investigate the efficiency sorting pattern of foreign affiliates serving different markets. We find systematic differences among the attributes of foreign affiliates serving the local and overseas markets. Affiliates serving only the host country...