and cultural distance between FDI source and host countries to measure exogenous time-varying changes in FDI inflows. We …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

It is generally assumed that distance in the gravity model strictly reflects frictions impeding bilateral trade … trade. This paper investigates the hypothesis that if we control for distance in the ordinary sense, differences North … influence of distance that has been occurring since World War II. This last hypothesis receives confirmation as well. Finally …

Distance effects in gravity equations are high and are not decreasing over time. Given that technical change in … are increasing in distance. This creates an additional effect of distance on aggregate trade flows: while the intensive … margin of trade is unaffected, the extensive margin is magnified. This magnification leads to higher predicted distance …