Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …

grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in … a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in … a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in … a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

We study the effect of cultural ties on economic exchange using a novel measure for cultural identity: dialects. We … evaluate linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools …. The recorded geography of dialects comprehensively portrays local cultural similarities that have been evolving for …

It has long been argued that economic phenomena are affected by culture. However, the causal effect of cultural ties on … exchange, and because it is hard to separate culture from other influences. In this paper, we address these issues by using a … linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools. The recorded …

grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in … a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in … a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …