Home-biased gravity: The role of migrant tastes in international trade

Zhang, Penglong

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104863

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“…Daumal (2008), for example, argues that countries with federal governments tend to record higher levels of international trade due to domestic market fragmentation (and thus high interregional trade costs) and/or due to political incentives associated with separatism, in addition to evidence of a positive connection between linguistic heterogeneity and trade openness. Bratti, De Benedictis, andSantoni (2014), andZhang (2020) show that immigration to a country tends to increase trade with the country people migrate from. This can be due either to immigrants exhibiting a home bias in their consumption behavior or their potential to act as a cultural bridge between the two countries, thereby reducing mutual trading costs (Bratti, De Benedictis, and Santoni 2014).…”

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Finance, Globalization, and Urban Primacy

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Wójcik

2021

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Finance, Globalization, and Urban Primacy

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2021

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“…Studies on migration establish two basic principles that have consequences for international trade. First, migration reduces the cost of the transaction between two countries (Enderwick et al 2011 ; Steingress 2018 ) and second, migrated people bring along a preference for products from their home country (Zhang 2020 ).…”

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A panel cointegration analysis of linkages between international trade and tourism: case of India and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries

Azmi

Khan

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The study is undertaken to examine international trade and tourism nexus in case of India and SAARC countries. To achieve the objective, panel cointegration is employed over the period of 22 years (1997 to 2018). The results from both first and second generation cointegration tests indicated the existence of long run equilibrium among tourism, export, and import. Albeit there are differences between short-term and long-term associations, the findings from autoregressive distributed lag approach indicates strong long-term linkages between trade and tourism. A possible channel of exports exerting a positive influence on tourist arrival is that the products in foreign markets increase the recognition and image of a country eventually leading to more tourists. Moreover, increased exports are expected to increase business trips further increasing the leisure trips and hence a strong linkage between export and tourism. On the other hand, a possible explanation of positive effect of imports on tourism could be that the destination countries which provide tourists with products according to their home taste encourage tourists to travel to these countries. The findings provided in the paper have strong implications for expanding India’s tourism footprint in the region.

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“…13. Another large fraction of the non-farm employment is migrant workers to urban. See Zhang (2020) for more discussion on migration and information.…”

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Internet access and irrigation adoption in China

Wang

Zhang

2022

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PurposeThis study aims to examine the effect of the Internet on irrigation system adoption. The authors implement the most extensive household survey of irrigation arrangements ever conducted in rural China and also exploit a public program to improve the quality of distance education in rural middle schools, which has led to plausibly exogenous variation in Internet access across rural districts.Design/methodology/approachThe authors present a conceptual framework highlighting the transmission mechanisms whereby Internet access may affect irrigation system selection and identify direct effects through agricultural production and an indirect effect through non-agricultural production. To examine the effect of the Internet on irrigation system adoption, we implement the most extensive household survey of irrigation arrangements ever conducted in rural China. We also exploit a public program to improve the quality of distance education in rural middle schools, which has led to plausibly exogenous variation in Internet access across rural districts.FindingsThe authors find evidence to suggest that Internet access can effectively reduce information frictions and searching costs in the non-agricultural labor market, thus increasing rural households' participation in non-farm work. To save more hours from agricultural production, rural households select more labor-saving irrigation systems.Originality/valueThis study’s findings have important implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in Internet infrastructure to improve agricultural development in rural and isolated areas.

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Home-biased gravity: The role of migrant tastes in international trade

Cited by 20 publications

References 43 publications

Finance, Globalization, and Urban Primacy

Finance, Globalization, and Urban Primacy

A panel cointegration analysis of linkages between international trade and tourism: case of India and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries

Internet access and irrigation adoption in China

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