This paper studies the impact of physical distance and different relational proximity types on the formation of the … distance survives in virtual geography even after controlling for relational proximities. In order to do so, a unique and … infrastructure from a spatial network perspective. Our results indicate that physical distance, but also different relational …

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 …

to capture scale as distance in terms of territorial, cognitive, and affective distance. The spatial perspective brings …