distance between business partners is still relevant even when information and communication technologies (ICT) provide …

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 …

Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … a broad range of real and financial transactions measures, as well as several different metrics of distance (physical … between countries that are more distant along the various metrics, and find that the different distance measures magnify each …

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 …

Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … a broad range of real and financial transactions measures, as well as several different metrics of distance (physical … between countries that are more distant along the various metrics, and find that the different distance measures magnify each …

Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … a broad range of real and financial transactions measures, as well as several different metrics of distance (physical … between countries that are more distant along the various metrics, and find that the different distance measures magnify each …