Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … local dialect between regions have a sizable and significant positive impact on intra-national trade. We interpret this …

This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in U.S. imports using detailed country-productdata. We create … find important roles for the interaction of country and product characteristicsin determining intra-firm trade shares …. Intra-firm trade is high for products with low levels of contractabilitysourced from countries with weak governance, for …