Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is
twofold. First, data needed to examine these effects are not readily available. Second,
identifying such effects requires properly addressing potential endogeneity problems
affecting the relationship between internal infrastructure and trade. In this paper, we
overcome these limitations by combining firm-level export data with detailed geo-referenced
information on Chile and by exploiting the earthquake that took place in this country in 2010 …