This paper provides evidence of the effect of immigration-based networks on German trade. Germany presents a particular … interesting case study to examine the effect of ethnic networks on exports due to its high export dependence and its reserved … migration policy. According to our results, we find no trade creating effect from migrant networks on exports but on imports …

World cities are important nodes in the global networks of knowledge-based economies. As a result of the growing … empirically using the interlocking network model of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. Two approaches can … be distinguished from a spatial perspective: a global approach that studies the world city network from the perspective …