This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our …, both of which show that previous estimates of the ethnic-network elasticity of trade are sensitive to the restrictions … to remove the restriction that the network effect is the same for all ethnicities. We find that ethnic-network effects …

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our …, both of which have noteworthy empirical consequences. Our main departure is to remove the restriction that the network … for unobserved heterogeneity with properly specified fixed effects. We find that ethnic-network effects are much larger …

In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001 …) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …

COVID-19 is expected to have contributed towards changing the geographical structure of world trade, including trade …

network) that are unrealistic for most economic networks like the World Trade Web (WTW). In this paper we study the evolution …In all empirical-network studies, the observed properties of economic networks are informative only if compared with a … of the WTW using a recently-proposed family of null network models. The method allows to analytically obtain the expected …

In this paper we compare the patterns of trade and financial integration by exploiting network analysis. Our results … show that, by combining binary and weighted network analysis, it is possible to deliver more precise and thorough insights … central ones and use them as hubs to access the rest of the network. -- International Trade ; International Financial Flows …