2007): “Quality Sorting and Trade: Firm-Level Evidence for French Wine,” Unpub. paper, Université de Paris I
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@MISC{Crozet_2007):“quality,
author = {Matthieu Crozet and Keith Head and Thierry Mayer},
title = {2007): “Quality Sorting and Trade: Firm-Level Evidence for French Wine,” Unpub. paper, Université de Paris I},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
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 guidebooks. We show that high quality producers export to more markets, charge higher prices, and sell more in each market. Our model predicts quality sorting: the more difficult a market is to serve, the better on average will be the firms that serve it. Our findings point to the empirical importance of quality sorting in one industry and could be extended to other industries.
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