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. …

's exports and the distance to destination countries for Germany. To anticipate the most important result, it is shown that the … quality of exported goods and the distance to destination countries are not statistically positively correlated. …

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

important. Geographical distance plays a major role in location decisions, a finding that is especially pronounced for workers …