Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business … networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of … migrants employed in managerial/business-related occupations has a strong additional effect on trade, and especially on exports …

terms of trade. Our results suggest that the Chinese fiscal policy targeting exports follows a variety of objectives whose …

markets. This finding goes against the predictions of the main models of international trade (with or without quality …