1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …

exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and …, Chinese firm-level data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC), and Chinese customs data strongly supports the …

. These findings are established through the estimation of a spatial bivariate probit model. …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

We study how financial frictions affect firm-level heterogeneity and trade. We build a model where productivity … dispersed outcomes. As a result, credit frictions make firms smaller and more homogeneous, and hinder the volume of exports …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …