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

By Paulo Bastos, Joana C. G. Silva. 2010

384 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Andrew B. Bernard
2. Peter K. Schott
3. J. B. Jensen
4. Maria Bas
5. Paulo Bastos
6. H. Vandenbussche
7. Vanessa Strauss-Kahn
8. S. Redding

In Finance

1. Maria Bas
2. Vanessa Strauss-Kahn
3. Peter K. Schott
4. Paulo Bastos
5. E. Artuç
6. Bob Rijkers
7. H. Vandenbussche
8. Jacques-François Thisse

In Strategy and Management

1. Andrew B. Bernard
2. Maria Bas
3. Vanessa Strauss-Kahn
4. Paulo Bastos
5. Peter K. Schott
6. J. B. Jensen
7. H. Vandenbussche
8. E. Verhoogen

Citations in the corpus

• Product and Process Productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia (2013, background): “34A recent literature shows that export prices vary within firms across destinations, which suggests that firms tailor their quality to the destination market (Bastos and Silva 2010, Manova and Zhang 2012, Harrigan et al. 2012).”
• Robots, Tasks and Trade (2018, positive): “In particular, exporting to less developed countries might lead to an expansion of less technology-intensive production lines within firms (Verhoogen, 2008; Bastos and Silva, 2010; Bastos, Silva, and Verhoogen, 2018).”
• Verti-Zontal Differentiation in Export Markets (2013, methodology): “(16), as for example Bastos and Silva (2010) or Hallak and Sivadasan (2013) do.”
• Export Destinations and Input Prices (2014, background): “In Portuguese data, Bastos and Silva (2008, 2010) show that individual firms charge higher “free on board” (f.o.b.) prices for goods sold to richer destination markets within narrow product categories, controlling for distance and other destination characteristics.4 The within-firm-product…”
• The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2012, background): “14See also Bastos and Silva (2008) for evidence using Portuguese trade transaction data. productivity implies lower prices whereas higher product quality can lead to higher prices, as explored in Baldwin & Harrigan (2011) and Johnson (2010).”
• Input-trade liberalization, export prices and quality upgrading (2015, positive): “…on the determinants of export price variation in cross-section, i.e., within-product across firms or within product-firm across markets (see Bastos and Silva 2010, Gorg, Halpern and Murakovy 2010, Kugler and Verhoogen 2012, Martin 2012, Manova and Zhang 2012 and Harrigan, Ma and Shlychkov…”
• Knocking on Tax Haven’s Door: Multinational Firms and Transfer Pricing (2017, background): “Bastos & Silva 2010, Manova & Zhang 2012, Martin 2012).”