Disentangling the productivity from the trade-cost effect

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Table of contents

1 How Migrant Workers Foster Exports 
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Exports and migration
1.3 Data and stylised facts
1.3.1 Data
1.3.2 Stylised facts
1.4 Theoretical framework
1.4.1 Model set-up
1.4.2 Demand
1.4.3 Supply
1.4.4 First-order selection effects
1.5 Pro-trade effect of foreign-born workers
1.5.1 Endogeneity concerns
1.5.2 Propensity score matching and treatment effect estimation
1.5.3 Pro-trade effect of foreign-born workers: results
1.6 Disentangling the productivity from the trade-cost effect
1.6.1 Empirical strategy
1.6.2 Results
1.7 Conclusion
1.8 Additional Material
A Additional Information – Data
B Additional Results: The pro-trade effect of migrants
C Additional Results: The two channels
2 How Multi-Destination Firms Shape the Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade: Micro Evidence and Aggregate Implications 
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Real Exchange Rate Volatility, Firm Heterogeneity and Exports: Theoretical Background
2.2.1 How should the average firm react to bilateral RER volatility?
2.2.2 How should firm performance impact this relationship between bilateral RER volatility and exports?
2.2.3 Key testable relationships
2.3 Empirics
2.3.1 Data
2.3.2 Descriptive Statistics
2.3.3 French Firms and RER Volatility: Some Facts
2.4 Export Performance and Bilateral RER Volatility
2.4.1 Baseline evidence
2.4.2 Robustness analysis
2.5 Investigating Reallocation Behavior
2.5.1 Firm-year fixed effects and export shares
2.5.2 External RER volatility and Reallocation
2.5.3 Selection effects
2.5.4 The Product Margin of Trade
2.6 Aggregate Implications
2.7 Conclusion
2.8 Additional Tables
D Alternative Definitions of Key Variables
E Alternative Measures of Firm Performance
F Alternative Definitions of the Extensive Margin
G Omitted Variables
H Alternative Samples
I Additional results on reallocation
3 Trade Costs and Current Accounts 
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Literature Review
3.3 Theory
3.4 Empirical Strategy
3.4.1 Translating the Predictions into Empirics
3.4.2 Specifications and Econometric Issues
3.4.3 Data Sources and Stylized Facts
3.5 Results
3.5.1 Prediction 1: Trade Costs and Current Accounts
3.5.2 Prediction 2: Institutional Integration, Trade Costs and Current Accounts
3.6 Robustness
3.6.1 Alternative Treatment for Unobserved Individual Heterogeneity
3.6.2 Lagged Effects
3.7 Conclusion
Conclusion