Considerable efforts have been made in recent years to produce detailed topologies of the Internet, but so far these … for the number of connections among each country-pair, based on hypergeometric distribution. Original data are filtered so …. 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 …

electronics category, this paper examines the roles of distance as well as seller and buyer experience in Chinese e-commerce. Our … estimate of a gravity model shows that the distance elasticity in our data is greater than US C2C e-commerce but smaller than … experience and distance. Our results show that more experienced sellers tend to sell more and export their goods farther into the …

reformulated major concepts and hypotheses in the ‘90ies due to revolutionary development of internet (Cairncross, 1997 … of interest from distance to proximity, which is essential in our understanding for new knowledge creation and innovation … in cities while the importance of distance is decreasing (Boschma, 2005). Economic geographers also claim that innovation …

reformulated major concepts and hypotheses in the '90ies due to revolutionary development of internet (Cairncross, 1997 … of interest from distance to proximity, which is essential in our understanding for new knowledge creation and innovation … in cities while the importance of distance is decreasing (Boschma, 2005). Economic geographers also claim that innovation …

expansion of the Internet matters for this phenomenon. Using firm-level customs transaction data from 11 developing countries …, we show that the spread of the internet steepens the slope of the rank-sales relationship among exporters. This shift … likely to retain their status owing to a better Internet. Doubling internet adoption is expected to boost the chance for the …

workers from the Kyrgyz Republic. Using a combination of traditional high frequency macroeconomic data and real time internet …