The variation of export prices across and within firms

Juan de Lucio, Raúl Mínguez (), Asier Minondo () and Francisco Requena Silvente
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Raúl Mínguez: UNIVERSIDAD NEBRIJA

No 1634, Working Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: This paper uses transaction-level trade data to analyse the differences in export prices across and within Spanish manufacturing firms in the year 2014. The transactional nature of the database uncovers sizable differences in the price that an exporter charges for the same product and destination. These differences are related to the number of goods covered within each product category, volume discounts and vertically differentiated varieties. Export prices are positively correlated with firms’ productivity, destination markets’ GDP per capita and distance to Spain. These latter results suggest that Spanish exporters compete in quality.

Keywords: export prices; firm-level transaction data; heterogeneous firms; quality; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F10 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2016-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-int
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Related works:
Journal Article: The variation of export prices across and within firms (2018)
Working Paper: The variation of export prices across and within firms (2016)
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