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 …

Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires … the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs … specification used. This paper shows that the specification of trade costs matters. Estimations of a NEG wage equation for a sample …

Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common … economically relevant to determine import processing costs, predict who would benefits from trade facilitation, and interpret …

switching channel. Pricing exports in the dominant vs. producer currency mutes the effect of DCF on trade. …We propose a new channel through which exchange rates affect trade. Exploiting the heterogeneity in firms' foreign … currency debt maturity structure around a large depreciation in Colombia, we show that debt revaluation compresses imports due …

connect the theory of trade with heterogeneous firms to the real-world empirical evidence that motivated the development of …

In this paper, we zoom in on the firm level of German merchandise foreign trade, using a novel data base with … consolidated reporting of taxable entities and the reporting thresholds present in intra-EU trade have been largely eliminated … distribution of the number of products they trade and the number of countries they trade with. Moreover, we examine the importance …

increase in French exports to the new members. While workers benefited overall, those competing most directly with imports … exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative … matching frictions in gravity. In the cross section, we find matching frictions as important as iceberg costs in impeding trade …

effects of integration but more pronounced labour market effects from immigration. …

model, where the UK can commit to mobility, and the EU may constrain trade to dissuade future secession, or to punish the UK …. The model highlights the importance of whether the EU views trade and labor mobility as substitutes, in line with standard … trade theory, or as complements, as suggested by EU statements about inseparable freedoms. In the former case, the UK can …