Immigrants can increase international trade by shifting preferences towards the goods of their country of origin and by reducing bilateral transaction costs. Using geogra[...]

This paper studies the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote share for the Republican Party using county-level data from 1990 to 2016. Our main contribut[...]

This paper quantifies a novel channel that contributes to greater trade integration: the release of harmonized, voluntary product standards. Standards define product char[...]

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

This paper contributes to the debate on the magnitude of exchange rate elasticities by providing a set of price and quantity elasticities for 51 advanced and emerging-mar[...]

This paper develops a theoretical framework to infer the nature of fixed costs from the relationship between entry patterns in international markets and destination marke[...]

This paper studies the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote share for the Republican Party using county-level data from 1990 to 2016. Our main contribut[...]

The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "The causal impact of migration on US trade: Evidence from political refugees", by Steingress. Please see the Read[...]