The trade-enhancing effect of immigration networks: New evidence on the role of geographic proximity

Andrés Artal-Tur, Vicente J. Pallardó-López and Francisco Requena-Silvente
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Francisco Requena Silvente

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 3, 554-557

Abstract: We use migration-trade data from Italian, Portuguese and Spanish provinces to examine the importance of geographic proximity in the effectiveness of ethnic networks on bilateral trade. Empirical findings from the gravity model show that the migration-trade link is clearly in-province: exports from a province to a country do not receive any stimuli from immigrants from this country living outside of the province, once we control for country–province time-invariant fixed effects.

Keywords: Province-level exports; Immigration; Ethnic networks; Gravity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F22 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.05.046

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