that adoption of broadband internet makes trade patterns more sensitive to distance and economic size. Going from no … broadband availability to full coverage increases the magnitude of the elasticity of trade with respect to distance by 0.12, and … the elasticity of trade with respect to destination size by 0.06. For distance, this means that an increase in internet …

time. We employ geographical distance between countries in the world to filter the links in the ITN, building a sequence of … sub-networks, each one featuring trade links occurring at similar distance. We then test if the topological properties of … ITN subnetworks change as distance increases. We find that distance strongly impacts, in non-linear ways, the topology of …

This paper brings together three strands of literature on the determinants of international trade − distance … gravity model, we find that the importance of formal institutions (rule of law) for bilateral trade increases with distance … substitution effect does not decrease with distance. Our findings contribute to explaining the persistent negative effect of …

and offset their lack of within-country experience. The foreign VC's distance from the portfolio company ceases to be a …

magnify the importance of lender-to-borrower distance. Our findings are also obtained with estimation techniques that allow …

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

. This paper includes the distance between groups as a crucial aspect of a country's ethnic set-up. Language, ethno … distance adjusted ethno-linguistic fractionalization index (DELF) is based on an extensive amount of data, containing more than …

assume that investors face costs of control that vary among sectors and increase in distance. The results show that (i … distance may have a non-monotonous effect on the likelihood of horizontal investments, and (iii) that globalization, if … understood as reducing distance, leads to more integration. …