Ethnic networks and trade: Intensive versus extensive margins

Cletus Coughlin and Howard Wall

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 113, issue 1, 73-75

Abstract: Ethnic networks have been associated with increased international trade, although studies have not differentiated between entry into foreign markets and trade expansion. We find that ethnic networks increase trade on the intensive margin but not on the extensive margin.

Keywords: Ethnic; networks; State; exports; Intensive; margin; Extensive; margin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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