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 …

on gravity modeling and estimation for international trade and migration and on domestic firm-level labor market effects … distance coefficient increases over time when standard estimators are used, while a non-linear estimation of the newly … developed estimation leads to a decline in the distance coefficient over time. This shows that the distance puzzle, thus, arises …

Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … addition to its well-established relevance for the level of trade. A simple model of trade with endogenous markups shows that … demand shocks have a larger impact on trade between more distant countries. We test this implication in two steps, relying on …

Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … addition to its well-established relevance for the level of trade. A simple model of trade with endogenous markups shows that … demand shocks have a larger impact on trade between more distant countries. We test this implication in two steps, relying on …