This paper studies the relationship between migration and trade, with the aim of measuring both direct and indirect … network effects. We analyze trade of diferentiated and homogeneous goods using an econometric approach inspired by spatial … that migration significantly affects trade across categories both in direct and in indirect way. The indirect impact …

This paper presents a simple stochastic model of proportionate growth to describe international trade and it applies … this set-up to the relationship between export dynamics and economic development. Trade flows are assumed to grow as a … geometric Brownian motion while new trade links follow a preferential attachment mechanism, and these two processes are assumed …

This paper contributes to the literature explaining firm-level heterogeneity in the extensive margin of trade, defined …