The quality of a firm's exports Where you export to matters

被引:192
作者
Bastos, Paulo [2 ]
Silva, Joana [1 ]
机构
[1] World Bank, Washington, DC 20433 USA
[2] Inter Amer Dev Bank, Res Dept, Washington, DC 20577 USA
关键词
Firm level exporting; Product quality; Destination market; Firm heterogeneity; TRADE; PRODUCT; SPECIALIZATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.jinteco.2010.07.001
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
What drives export quality? Using Portuguese firm level data on exports by product and destination market we find that f o b unit values Increase systematically with distance and tend to be higher in shipments to richer nations These relationships reflect not only the sorting of firms across markets but also the within-firm variation of unit values across destinations Within product categories higher-productivity firms tend to ship greater quantities at higher prices to a given market consistent with higher quality In addition firm productivity tends to magnify the positive effect of distance on within-product unit values suggesting that high-productivity high-quality firms are more able to serve difficult markets (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved
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