Export prices across firms and destinations

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 379-436

  Manova, Kalina ^a   Zhang, Zhiwei ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; COMMODITY PRICE; EXPORT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; TRADE FLOW;

EID: 84863028147     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjr051     Document Type: Article

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