Domestic institutions can have profound effects on international trade. This chapter reviews
the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of this insight. Particular attention is paid to …

Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the
complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few …

I show that undervaluation of the currency (a high real exchange rate) stimulates economic
growth. This is true particularly for developing countries. This finding is robust to using …

How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We answer this question by using
data on bilateral trust between European countries. We document that this trust is affected …

Is a country's ability to enforce contracts an important determinant of comparative
advantage? To answer this question, I construct a variable that measures, for each good, the …

We find that ethnic Chinese networks, proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population
shares, increased bilateral trade more for differentiated than for homogeneous products …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to construct a new and publicly available measure
of the pairwise social connectedness between 170 countries and 332 European regions. We …

This paper develops an approach for quantifying the importance of different sources of
comparative advantage, by extending the Eaton and Kortum (2002) model to predict industry …

We exploit a unique event in human history, the exodus of the Vietnamese Boat People to
the US, to provide evidence for the causal pro‐trade effect of migrants. This episode …

内容提要本文重点分析了金融发展对提升出口技术复杂度的促进作用. 本文认为产品技术复杂度
越高, 研发和生产过程中的不确定性越大, 逆向选择问题越突出; 金融发展可以通过解决逆向选择 …