Native language, spoken language, translation and trade

By Jacques Mélitz, F. Toubal. 2014

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Determinants of Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments in Emerging and Developed Economies: The Effects of Relational and Institutional Trust (2015, neutral): “In addition, we include a dummy variable provided by Melitz and Toubal (2012) indicating that the countries share a common language (same langij) spoken by at least 10 % of the population in both countries.”
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, positive): “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”
Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform (2018, background): “Typically, researchers regress bilateral trade on a dummy variable for whether the two countries share the same language, and ﬁnd that this coeﬃcient is strongly positive (e.g., Melitz (2008), Egger and Lassmann (2012), and Melitz and Toubal (2014)).”
Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade (2014, neutral): “Conversely, in countries with different legal origin the effect of business networks 10 For the language variable, instead of the “common official language” variable, we also explored the “aggregate index of linguistic indices” proposed in Melitz and Toubal (2012).”