This paper studies how foreign demand affects product quality specialization in international trade. In a model with non-homothetic CES preferences, firms choose quality levels based on global demand conditions, and countries with better access to high-income markets host more high-end...

We show using detailed firm-level Chinese data that, among small exporters, firms selling to a more diversified set of countries have more volatile exports, while the opposite holds among large exporters. This result, which stands in marked contrast to standard portfolio theory for small...

We show using detailed firm-level Chinese data that, among small exporters, firms selling to a more diversified set of countries have more volatile exports, while the opposite holds among large exporters. This result, which stands in marked contrast to standard portfolio theory for small...