Fixed costs associated with learning about demand and setting up distribution networks are expected to be lower when there are more potential contacts in the destination market, suggesting a greater probability of market entry and larger export revenues. The authors match historically-determined emigration stocks with detailed firm-level data from Portugal to examine the effect of migrant networks on these export outcomes. They find that larger stocks...
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2012/11/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS6279
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2012/11/01
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Disclosed
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Networks, firms, and trade
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migrant network