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 …

This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology …, and falls with distance to the North; ii) an increase of LAC’s ETG to East Asia’s levels raises TFP by 165%, fully … gaps; and iv) South America’s loss of TFP relative to Mexico associated with its greater distance to US-Canada (both Europe …

religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted ethno-linguistic fractionalization index (DELF) is based on highly … shows that this does not hold true for ethnic diversity in more developed countries. As regards the cultural distance …

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

find that the speed depends on distance, political borders, and on the political importance of a city. Furthermore …

, namely transport times instead of geographical distance, and GDP in PPP instead of nominal. Replacing distance with transport …