This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue … that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue … Deutsche Bundesliga') between the playing seasons 1986-87 and 2006-07. We find that distance contributes significantly in …

importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … uncertainty. Likewise, distance-related transaction costs discourage FDI by latecomers considerably less than FDI by early movers. …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

The tradition of gravity models is in the analysis of trade flows with market size and geographic or economic distance … uncertain. Market size can reach beyond the host country and distance can be an incentive as well as an impediment to FDI. In … important determinant of the regional structure of German FDI, and (2) the costs of operating at a distance seem to be weighted …

former patchwork of Germany. When controlling for the in uence of distance, culture (mea- sured by dialects) and regional …