10.17889/E110108V1
Verhoogen, Eric
Bastos, Paulo
Silva, Joana
Replication data for: Export Destinations and Input Prices
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2018
10.1257/aer.20140647
10.1257/aer.20140647
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This paper examines the relationship between the destination of exports and the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. Both ordinary least squares regressions and an instrumental-variable strategy using exchange-rate movements (interacted with indicators for initial exports) as a source of variation in destinations indicate that exporting to richer countries leads firms to pay higher prices for inputs, other things equal. The results are supportive of what we call the income-based quality-choice channel: selling to richer destinations leads firms to raise the average quality of goods they produce and to purchase higher-quality inputs.