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 …

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 …

China and Sri Lanka whether or not to export - namely, the acquisition of technological capabilities and learning from …

paper examines the links between firm-level export performance, foreign ownership and the acquisition of technological …, human capital, technological capabilities and geographical location are all positively associated with export shares …

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. …

export markets. To date, the analysis of demand factors has received much less attention. We propose a new model where …

export markets. To date, the analysis of demand factors has received much less attention. We propose a new model where …

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 …

associated with firm exports. More productive firms export more products to more countries and have higher average product …-country export flows. The extensive and intensive margins are equally important in total firm exports …