Immigrant entrepreneurship has become a phenomenon of global interest. This paper
reviews existing immigrant entrepreneurship literature in order to map out the major streams …

This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on
recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity …

We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for
195 countries, which we use together with series for common official language and linguistic …

Immigrant entrepreneurship is an important socio-economic phenomenon today. Many
studies have been developed in academic arenas of different disciplines. This paper aims to …

This paper surveys the measurement of trade costs: what we know and don't know but may
usefully attempt to learn. Partial and incomplete data on direct measures of costs go with …

I propose a network/search view of international trade in differentiated products. I present
evidence that supports the view that proximity and common language/colonial ties are more …

We study immigrant entrepreneurship in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business
Owners. First-generation immigrants create about 25% of new firms in America, but this …

Most independent nations today were part of empires in 1945. Using bilateral trade data
from 1948 to 2006, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. While …

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 …

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 …