While we have devoted great attention to the expanding flow of trade and investment into this state, perhaps it's time …

Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would … suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the …

exports within a framework of trade openness. Based on the trade gravity model, we examine the effect of governance on the … evolution of Colombian exports through an econometric approach that identifies, on the one hand, the influence of institutional … quality and the rule of law variables in the performance of Colombian exports in relation to other variables included in the …

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …

This paper introduces imports in intermediate inputs into a standard heterogeneous firms model of trade with asymmetric … countries. The model highlights how imports from a specific country affects a firm's decision to export to that country (the … market size on the export margins is magnified when imports in intermediates are accounted for. Indeed, to the extent that …