Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While … with managerial duties is critical to explain the reduction of transaction costs caused by migrant networks. …

Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a … number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi … elasticity of trade to migration is quite high, and it declines to zero at about 4,000 immigrants. If migration stocks exceed …

implemented to analyze the effect of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on exports. We use cross-sectional HS trade data …

; and Mongolia. To this end, a panel-gravity trade model with series over 2001 to 2017 is provided to estimate the gravity …

We investigate whether top managers with personal ties to a foreign country facilitate trade with that country by … overcoming bilateral trade barriers that obstruct international business relationships. Using individual managers' nationality …, we construct a novel database of bilateral top manager connections. We analyze the trade effects of these bilateral …

at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural … costs of natural disasters: trade openness and income per capita (Chapter 4), and natural disasters, international … Arbeit liefert einen Betrag zum Verständnis atypischer Determinanten von Handel und Migration: historische und kulturelle …

Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a … number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi … elasticity of trade to migration is quite high, and it declines to zero at about 4,000 immigrants. If migration stocks exceed …

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 …

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of … cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 … countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance has a negative effect on bilateral trade, presumably because the …