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International service transactions: Is time a trade barrier in a connected world?
Dettmer, Bianka - 2010
distance between business partners is still relevant even when information and communication technologies (ICT) provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281652
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Integration, disintegration and trade in Europe: Evolution of trade relations during the 1990s
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000
The gravity model of trade is used to assess the economic consequences of new borders, which arose in the wake of break-ups of multinational federations in Eastern Europe. The intensity of trade relations among the constituent parts of Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union and the Baltics was very high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301308
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Disintegration and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2001
The gravity model of trade is utilized to assess the impact of disintegration on trade. The analysis is based on three recent disintegration episodes involving the firmer Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The results point to a very strong home bias around the time of disintegration,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313323
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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - 2012
Research for evidence on offshoring activities and its driving forces has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshoring using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. We develop a specification grounded in incomplete specialization that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318414
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Distance matters!: Evidence from professional team sports
Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293412
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The discontinuous integration of Western Europe's heterogeneous market for corporate control from 1995 to 2007
Frey, Rainer - 2010
driven by institutional factors. On the other hand, geographical distance became less relevant for M&As for the entire time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301320
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Product Heterogeneity, Intangible Barriers and Distance Decay: The Effect of Multiple Dimensions of Distance on Trade across Different Product Categories
Lankhuizen, Maureen B.M.; de Graaff, Thomas; de Groot, … - 2012
We empirically examine the heterogeneity in the effects of multiple dimensions of distance on trade across detailed … categories into an, a priori unknown, number of segments based on estimated coefficients of multiple dimensions of distance in … the gravity equation. We find that institutional distance, whether countries belong to the same trade block and especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326526
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The discontinuous integration of Western Europe's heterogeneous market for corporate control from 1995 to 2007
Frey, Rainer - 2010
driven by institutional factors. On the other hand, geographical distance became less relevant for M&As for the entire time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271607
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A reappraisal of the border effect on relative price volatility
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon-Sun - 2006
Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and that exchange rate fluctuations explain about one-third of the volatility increase. In re-evaluating the border effect, this study shows that cross-country heterogeneity in price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274494
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Endogenous transport costs in international trade
Kleinert, Jörn; Spies, Julia - 2011
In this paper we claim that distance alone is a poor proxy for international transport costs in empirical studies. We … vary with two characteristics: with the distance between two locations and with the endogenous decision to invest in a more … the endogeneity of the investment decision. Our results confirm that transport prices are influenced by both the distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286440