There is abundant evidence that immigrants’ networks are associated with larger trade flows between countries of origin and the country (or province) where they settle. The causality of such relation and its magnitude, however, have not been proven beyond reasonable doubt. We use the simple...

There is abundant evidence that immigrant networks are associated with larger exports from the country where they settle to their countries of origin. The direction of causality of this association is less clearly established. Also, we do not know to what extent these increased exports are due...

This paper examines whether there is a long-run stable equilibrium relationship between advertising and sales across the market segments of the UK car industry over the period 1971-2001. In order to achieve this goal, we allow for structural breaks in the series using cointegration techniques....

The authors conduct an empirical study of the Heckscher—Ohlin—Vanek (HOV) model of trade using regional data rather than country data. Findings for Spanish regions suggest that relaxing the assumption of world factor price equalization alone is not enough to improve the performance...

The literature shows that new exporters have small levels of exports relative to regular exporters upon entry, and, if they survive, they have very high export growth rates between the entry year and the next year. However, these empirical facts might be biased by the partial year effect: firms...

Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While most of the attention has been focused on immigrants’ educational attainment, this paper focuses on the relevance of the tasks carried out by migrants. Our empirical results...

This paper investigates the influence of exporting countries' characteristics on the number of exporters (extensive margin) and average exports value per firm (intensive margin). For that purpose, we use a new database compiled by the OECD and Eurostat in year 2005, which allows the calculation...

S<sc>errano</sc> G., R<sc>equena</sc> F. and M<sc>artin</sc>-M<sc>ontaner</sc> J. Immigration, factor endowments and the productive structure of Spanish regions, 1996--2005, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The participation of immigrants in the Spanish labour market has increased from less than 3% in 1996 to more than 13% in 2005. The factor...