analysis we attempt to emphasize the links and importance of transportation costs for the trade literature and we outline … avenues where we believe interdisciplinary contributions between the international trade and transportation economics fields …

. Additionally, the wage rate and the labor market tightness increase and the unemployment ratio decreases in reaction to an increase …

North increase more than in the South in response to a hike in labor taxes. Regional wage setting affects regional …

away from centres of economic activity, we investigate the existence of a spatial wage structure for post …-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance …

rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is …

in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance …, genetic distance, and transport time. Across different measures of distance, the traditional determinants of outbound FDI …

affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the … distribution have seen the steepest fall in distance coefficients. At the same time, distance as a trade friction has not lost its … effects of proximity and regional trade agreements have increased over time. We also document substantial cross …

present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … intensity and distance trade-off weakening when a non-stop flight exists between the headquarters and the foreign subsidiary …'s economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to the proximity-concentration hypothesis. This trade-off is strongly …