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| Crozet, Matthieu; Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry. |
| Quality sorting and trade: Firm-level evidence for French wine Investigations of the effect of quality differences on heterogeneous performance in exporting have been limited by lack of direct measures of quality. We examine exports of French wine, matching the exporting firms to producer ratings from two wine guides. We show that high quality producers export to more markets, charge higher prices, and sell more in each market. More attractive markets are served by exporters that, on average, make lower rated Champagne. Market attractiveness has a weakly negative effect on prices and a strongly positive effect on quantities, confirming the sign predictions of a simple quality sorting model. Methodologically, we make several contributions to the literature.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; F12. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53883 |
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