decrease in fixed trade costs in that model we find that immigrants significantly increase exports (elasticity of 0.10), that …There is abundant evidence that immigrant networks are associated with larger exports from the country where they … not know to what extent these increased exports are due to an increase in the number of exporting firms (i.e. the …

A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time …

Fixed transaction costs and delivery lags are important costs of international trade. These costs lead firms to import … to a sudden, large increase in the relative price of imported goods creates a short-term trade implosion, an immediate …

relation between immigration and international trade in varieties--that is, the trade of particular goods from particular …What are the gains from international trade? And how do immigrants influence this process? While economists have … considered these questions before, particularly in the context of aggregate trade flows, there has been no work assessing the …

We study how international trade and the exporting decisions of establishments affect establishment creation over the …. Without international trade, entry is weakly countercyclical and too smooth. The model also generates fluctuations in the …

Almost Ideal gravity associates zero trade flows with variable and fixed trade cost variation in a flexible demand … system. Latent trade shares between non-partners are inferred from the Tobit estimator applied to trade among 75 countries … and 25 sectors in 2006. Latent Trade Bias (LTB) is the difference between the latent trade share and the as …

others. I use a standard gravity model of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2013, and an annual survey … perceived to have "a mainly positive or negative influence in the world." Holding other things constant, a country's exports are … economically significant; a one percent net increase in perceived positive influence raises exports by around .8 percent …

variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which … unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a … a smaller trade effect than other currency unions; it has a mildly stimulating effect at best. Third and most …

model in which a firm's exports in a market may depend on how similar the market is to the firm's home country (gravity) and …

We estimate geographic barriers to export trade in nine service categories for Canada's provinces from 1997 to 2007 … direct plus indirect effect of services trade costs on intra-provincial, inter-provincial and international trade relative to … their frictionless benchmarks. Barriers to services international trade are huge relative to inter-provincial trade and …