This article investigates whether the distance between origin and destination has played an increased role in shaping … 2012 are years of economic recession. The analytical tool employed is a gravity model. Our results document that distance …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders … border effects stem from the metropolitan level rather than state. Second, border and distance effects decrease with the age … distance effects are interestingly increasing. Finally, we find that (assignee) self-citations and aggregation bias are two …

argues that distance (however defined) is no longer a dominant characteristic of the world economy, or will cease to be so in …. We disagree, and with us many other economists (see, for example, Leamer, 2006). Distance dominates all aspects of … distance. Furthermore, there is little evidence of income convergence. Using various methods and data sets, we show that many …