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 increases a guest team …

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 …

driven by institutional factors. On the other hand, geographical distance became less relevant for M&As for the entire time …

and offset their lack of within-country experience. The foreign VC's distance from the portfolio company ceases to be a …

dimensions of distance shaping R and D collaborations in Europe and the US during the time period 1999 to 2009. We take a … investigate how the collaboration intensity between regions has been influenced by spatial, technological, and cultural distance …

magnify the importance of lender-to-borrower distance. Our findings are also obtained with estimation techniques that allow …

bilateral distance between two countries proves to be an important mediating factor, whereas intersectoral trade linkages, so …

informal lenders rely less on collateral with shorter distance to the borrower. …

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 …