on trade flows in manufacturing between Italian provinces and more than 200 foreign countries, we assess the causal … immigrant entrepreneurs have a positive, significant and economically meaningful effect on exports. We find that increasing the … stock of (non- entrepreneur) immigrants by 10% would lead to a 1.7% increase in exports in manufacturing towards immigrants …

The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was established to promote the exports of low-income countries to … economic policy. In our empirical analysis, based on an extensive dataset covering most of world trade, we find that GSP tends … to foster developing countries' exports in the short-run, but hampers them in the long-run. Also, GSP granting countries …