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 …

confirmation of this competitive effect for French exporters across export market destinations. Trade models based on exogenous … export sales (after controlling for bilateral trade costs). Theoretically, this within firm change in product mix driven by …

Recent empirical evidence has highlighted how the export patterns of multi-product firms dominate world trade flows …