Geography shapes economic outcomes in a major way. This Paper uses spatial empirical methods to detect and analyse … the expansion of interregional trade. Geography dictates, first, over what distances trade was possible in different …

This paper uses bilateral trade data for OECD countries at the 3-digit industry level to investigate the geography of … distance. We show that the dependence of IIT on geography arises not because of any inherent feature of the effects of distance …

theory is developed in an economic geography model that is an alternative to the standard Dixit-Stiglitz structure. In our …

Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years …, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and …

highlighted in literature: institutions and geography. However, it remains controversial as to which of these two is the more … important. The “Institutions school” assigns primal importance to institutions, whereas the “Geography school” considers … their hypotheses. It concludes in favour of the Institutions hypothesis as the Geography school does not provide a …

Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years …, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and …