This paper investigates the channels through which Spanish regional export promotion offices (REPOs) abroad affect bilateral exports. Using transaction data per product over the period 1995–2011, we decompose the total impact of REPOs on exports value into three margins: number of products,...

This paper investigates the existence of a continental bias in world trade and the potential differences in this bias across continents and at trade margins. We find a moderate positive continental bias in trade that masks an uneven impact of continental boundaries across continents. At the...