The Language Effect in International Trade: A Meta-Analysis
By Peter H. Egger, A. Lassmann. Social Science Research Network, 2012
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Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken) language increases trade flows directly by 44%.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Native language, spoken language, translation and trade (2014, unknown): “6 As regards FTAs and common currency areas, Baier and Bergstrand (2007), and more recently Egger et al. (2011), show a powerful reciprocal influence between FTAs and bilateral trade.”
- The causal impact of common native language on international trade: Evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design: evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design (2015, unknown): “Empirical research typically models common language as a non-tariff barrier to trade – mostly in the form of an iceberg-type, ad-valorem trade cost element among the numerous variable costs to trade in line with (1) (see Helliwell, 1999; Melitz, 2008; Egger and Lassmann, 2012; Melitz and Toubal, 201”
- Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Meta-Analysis (2020, unknown): “…others, providing additional evidence of publication bias.11 We also record each paper’s publication year (as in Koetse, de Groot, and Florax 2009; Egger and Lassmann 2012; Valickova, Havranek, and Horvath 2015; or Havranek, Rusnak, and Sokolova 2017).12 This variable may capture advances in…”
- Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform (2018, background): “bilateral trade on a “common language” dummy and find that this coefficient is strongly positive (Egger and Lassmann 2012).”