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within US states. After controlling for distance and country size, we estimate that relative to state-to-state trade … interpret it as highlighting the concentration of economic activity and trade flows at the local level. …
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. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …
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within U.S. states. After controlling for distance and country size, we estimate that relative to state-to-state trade … interpret it as highlighting the concentration of economic activity and trade flows at the local level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569799
This paper analyzes recent economic and diplomatic relations between Peru and Asia, with emphasis on China, Japan and … the Republic of Korea. In the last decade, Peru has experienced remarkable economic growth, driven by global demand for …
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This paper studies whether credit constraints affect the decision of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) to upgrade the quality of their exported output with respect to the one sold domestically. We use a detailed firm-level data-set on Italian SMEs reporting information on output...
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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 …
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Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … a broad range of real and financial transactions measures, as well as several different metrics of distance (physical … between countries that are more distant along the various metrics, and find that the different distance measures magnify each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990147
Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … a broad range of real and financial transactions measures, as well as several different metrics of distance (physical … between countries that are more distant along the various metrics, and find that the different distance measures magnify each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012049292
What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical episode provide for the present day? To answer these...
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This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders … border effects stem from the metropolitan level rather than state. Second, border and distance effects decrease with the age … distance effects are interestingly increasing. Finally, we find that (assignee) self-citations and aggregation bias are two …
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