product codes over time results in less product adding and dropping at continuing firms in the Belgian export and production …

export via a wholesaler are much more likely to become direct exporters to the same destination in subsequent periods … direct exporters to the same export market in subsequent periods. A connection to an exporting wholesaler results in a …

separates taste from quality and productivity (TFPQ) at the firm-product level. Export data by destination countries allow us to … identify the level of taste from consumer heterogeneity across destinations. We decompose export revenue into the contribution … of taste, quality and costs. We find that taste is very important and explains about 50 % of the variation in export …

export data at the firm-product level, we discover new and, heretofore, unknown facts about multi-product manufacturing … exporters. The large majority of Belgian manufacturing firms export products that they do not produce. More than three quarters … of the exported products and more than one quarter of export value from Belgian manufacturers are in goods that are not …