Niepmann, Friederike; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - CESifo - 2014
This study provides evidence that shocks to the supply of trade finance have a causal effect on U.S. exports. The … a U.S. bank’s share of the trade finance market in a country is, the larger should be the effect on exports to that …’s supply of letters of credit increases export growth, on average, by 1.5 percentage points. The effect is larger for exports …