TY - BOOK ID - 135825969 TI - Export Destinations and Input Prices AU - Bastos, Paulo AU - Silva, Joana AU - Verhoogen, Eric PY - 2014 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Access to Markets KW - Debt Markets KW - Economic Theory & Research KW - Emerging Markets KW - Export Destinations KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Heterogeneous Firms KW - International Economics & Trade KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Markets & Market Access KW - Private Sector Development KW - Product Prices UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135825969 AB - This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. The authors use exchange rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to richer countries leads firms to charge more for outputs and pay higher prices for inputs, other things equal. The results are supportive of the hypothesis that an exogenous increase in average destination income leads firms to raise the average quality of goods they produce and to purchase higher-quality inputs. ER -