Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks. … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel …

while firm-level evidence on trade in services is still rare and has just recently begun to emerge. This study uses an … overall export flows, especially for less popular markets, overall, however the intensive margin of trade contributes most …) significantly influence the probability of exporting but even more so the volume of service trade flows. Results from the …

on trade flows in manufacturing between Italian provinces and more than 200 foreign countries, we assess the causal …

on trade flows in manufacturing between Italian provinces and more than 200 foreign countries, we assess the causal …

transaction costs between i and j, the income per capita in j, school-age demographics in j, and the usual multilateral trade …, migrant networks, strong income growth and changes in demographics in nearby export markets explain the emergence of Australia …, Canada, Korea, and New Zealand and the loss of market share by the US, which still strongly dominates international trade in …

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. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral … on trade, and especially on exports. Those immigrants should be the ones directly involved in the diffusion and …

excluding bilateral trade possibly generated by network effects, as well as to instrumenting for migration using a gravity model. … focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding …

excluding bilateral trade possibly generated by network effects, as well as to instrumenting for migration using a gravity model. … focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding …

allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as … productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence … supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our framework allows to gauge their …