This paper brings together three strands of literature on the determinants of international trade − distance, formal … 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 …

. Moreover, distance plays a more prominent role in shaping the network of international trade in physical goods than trade in …

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 …

estimates of the border effect for continental Europe using road rather than great circle – or “as-crows-fly” – distance. Road … information on travel time, we are able to consider costs related to time in addition to those depending on distance. We find that … for the same great circle distance and the same city size, the road distance between two cities located in the same …

. Last, distance plays a more prominent role in shaping the network of international trade in physical goods than trade in …

are highly localised and dropping sharply with distance. The use of a small geographical unit of reference to measure … intra-national bilateral trade flows allows to estimating correctly the negative impact of distance on shipments. When we …

Internet mitigates the countries proximities, but increased the distance between the countries. …