Low export participation of firms across countries is typically related to high entry costs allowing only the most … productive firms to serve foreign markets. In this paper, we move beyond individual firm characteristics to explain export … participation and investigate whether firms' domestic network linkages can facilitate export entry. Firms receive information from …

export penetration. …

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 …

taste decreases in distance but this relationship is not monotonic. The contribution of consumer taste to actual export … product quality explain twice as much of the variation in export revenues than cost. …

consumer taste using a control function approach and perform a decomposition of export revenues of firm-products to establish … the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find …, consumer taste is an important and separate demand determinant to explain export revenues. Depending on the product, taste for …

consumer taste using a control function approach and perform a decomposition of export revenues of firm-products to establish … the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find …, consumer taste is an important and separate demand determinant to explain export revenues. Depending on the product, taste for …