“...Immigrants can increase international trade by shifting preferences towards the goods of their country of origin and by reducing bilateral transaction costs...”

“...'This paper develops a theoretical framework to infer the nature of fixed costs from the relationship between entry patterns in international markets and...”

“...•Aggregate export equations are consistent with gravity equations of bilateral trade.•Exports are a function of the RER and demand deflated by the price...”

“...In this paper we study the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote for the Republican Party by analyzing county-level data on election outcomes...”

“...Using a unique micro-level data set over the period 1998–2005 on Chinese firms, this paper presents empirical findings on the presence of credit constraints...”

“...This paper develops a theoretical framework to infer the nature of fixed costs from the relationship between entry patterns in international markets and...”

“...Immigrants can increase international trade by shifting preferences towards the goods of their country of origin and by reducing bilateral transaction costs...”

“...This paper shows that real effective exchange rate (REER) regressions, the standard approach for estimating the response of aggregate exports to exchange rate...”

“...Product standards are omnipresent in industrialized societies. Though standardization can be beneficial for domestic producers, divergent product standards...”