The results of this study for the 50 states imply that considerations of distance play an important role in the … migration decision of blacks, with the distance variable being statistically significant at the five percent level or better in …

Long distance coach services in Italy represent an almost unknown mode of transport to the general public, often … specifically focused on long distance coach transport in Italy, carried out by the authors (Beria et al., 2012). We provide policy … the European air industry after the liberalisation of the 90’s. We developed a geographical database of the long distance …

students would improve the quality of the education provided. Surveys have suggested that families rank the distance of the … results of standardized tests. We use a novel data set which includes measures of the distance between homes and schools to …

This paper examines whether the geographic distance between subsidiaries of multinational banks and their headquarters …, the distance constraint adversely affects loan growth, profitability and performance of foreign bank subsidiaries, and … second, the unfavorable information asymmetry faced by foreign banks, due to the distance constraint, in financing foreign …

). First, we provide a theoretical foundation for a gravity-type FDI model, which shows that physical distance and … FDI data for a total of 47 OECD and non-OECD countries from 1980 to 1997 and find that distance is negatively related to … in the 1990s than in the 1980s. Moreover, IT plays a more effective role by reducing communication cost when distance is …

This paper test the hypothesis that distance of firms from the main financial centre affects underpricing positively …. Higher is the distance higher is the uncertainty about the true value of the listing firm and lower the issue price …. Econometric results show that, in the Italian case, there is a positive effect of distance from the financial centre on the …

the fractional Brownian motion (fBm). Furthermore, by properly chosing the distance function, we reduce the measure of …

This paper explores the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders on international and … distance effects increase over time for the same-age citations. This increasing effect of borders and distance is associated … with strengthened knowledge agglomeration over time. Nevertheless, both border and distance effects decrease with the age …