a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration …

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of … cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 … countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance has a negative effect on bilateral trade, presumably because the …

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …

During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in … bilateral trade flows between China and most other countries. Using a time series based gravity model, this paper investigates …. Controlling for these product types also reveals that transport costs are more important for trade in homogeneous and reference …

This paper studies the importance of intangible barriers to trade in explaining variation in disaggregate international … trade. The analysis is based on a sample of 55 countries for the year 2000. We explicitly focus on the importance of … barriers for different product groups. More specifically, we find that cultural differences do not affect total trade …

Ineffective institutions increase transaction costs and reduce trade. This paper shows that differences in the … effectiveness of institutions offer an explanation for the tendency of OECD countries to trade disproportionately with each other …