s: An earlier study (Cieply, Paranque, 1996) revealed the existence of a size effect in the determination of the …

criterion based on a distance measure between filters, evaluating its performance with Monte Carlo experiments. …

economic distance. We argue that products which are highly sensitive to economic distance (proxied with absolute differences in … per capita income) and barely sensitive to geographical distance are the best candidates for future trade between the … different sensitivity to distance and highlight the importance of using disaggregated data when analysing international trade …