migration as a tool for increasing trade. We attempt to put this position to empirical scrutiny. Our results demonstrate that … migrants spur exports, especially along the extensive product margin of trade and for differentiated products, but with no … migration to facilitate trade may only be effective with respect to exports. This paper also contributes to the literature on …

This study formalizes the idea that that the world can become 'smaller' through firms' strategic trade … links through the hiring of immigrants. Because trade barriers are higher for services than for goods, and because trade in … services is more sensitive to informal trade barriers, firm investment in access to foreign networks could especially help to …

in international trade and foreign direct investment, from pioneering country-level studies to nascent firm-level studies …