The Causal Impact of Common Native Language on International Trade: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design∗
The Causal Impact of Common Native Language on International Trade: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design∗ Peter H. Egger and Andrea Lassmann October 10, 2013 ∗Acknowledgements: We thank the Swiss Federal Customs Administration for generously pro- viding data on trade transactions and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office for providing data on language use. We further thank Raphael Auer, Christoph Basten, Claudia Bernasconi, Paola Conconi, Andreas Fischer, Taiji Furusawa, Victor Ginsburgh, James Harrigan, Jota Ishikawa, Michaela Kesina, Veronika Killer, Mariko Klasing, Jacob LaRiviere, Thierry Mayer, Jacques Melitz, William S. Neilson, Harald Oberhofer, Emanuel Ornelas, Rapha¨elParchet, Mathieu Parenti, Philip Saur´e,Georg Schaur, Jan Schymik, Ren´eSieber, Daniel Sturm, Mathias Thoenig, Farid Toubal, Christian Volpe Martincus, and Hannes Winner for numerous useful comments. We benefited from comments of participants at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association 2011, the SSES Annual Meeting 2011, the 26th Annual European Economic Association Congress 2011, European Trade Study Group 2011, the Young Swiss Economists Meeting 2012, the Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2012, the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association 2012, the Brixen Workshop & Summer School on International Trade and Finance 2012, the HSE Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics at St. Petersburg 2012, the Heriot-Watt University at Edinburgh 2012, the Inter-American Development Bank 2012, the Swiss National Bank 2012, the University of Heidelberg 2013, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville 2012, the CEPR Conference on Causal Analysis in International Trade 2013, the Hitotsubashi University Winter International Trade Seminar, the University of Salzburg 2013, the London School of Economics 2013, and the 13th Research in International Trade and International Finance meetings at Paris I University 2013.
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