Berthelon, Matias; Freund, Caroline - In: Journal of International Economics 75 (2008) 2, pp. 310-320
Using disaggregated bilateral trade data, we find that the elasticity of trade to distance increased (in absolute value) by about 10% since 1985. To explore the reasons for this shift, we decompose the change in the distance elasticity of trade into the part due to a shift in the composition of...
