argues that firms export decisions are sensitive to their sizes and their product quality level. Specifically, a firm …-sized exporters narrow their product quality range to focus on an export variety. In contrast, existing exporters (large firms) can … compete on both price and quality under trade liberalization by expanding their export product range toward both the low …

top-quality products on the intensive margin. The product quality ladder also governs firms ’ export dynamics, both in …

.rm credit scores used by banks for their lending decisions, we assess how credit constraints affect export quality … export quality upgrading, credit constraints may affect the intensive margin of trade. …

export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution … leads to higher average prices. We test the theory using detailed data for Brazilian exporters and find that the destination … countries ́first and second moment of the income distribution are important determinants of export prices. Controlling for …