Head, Keith; Ries, John - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 43 (2010) 3, pp. 754-775
In an effort to stimulate trade, Canada has conducted regular trade missions starting in 1994, often led by the Prime …. This paper uses bilateral trade data to assess this claim. We find that Canada exports and imports above-normal amounts to … the countries to which it sent trade missions. However, the missions do not seem to have caused an increase in trade. In …