importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … uncertainty. Likewise, distance-related transaction costs discourage FDI by latecomers considerably less than FDI by early movers. …

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

Success in international trade depends, amongst other things, on distance from markets. Most new economic geography … models focus on the distance between countries. In contrast much less theorizing and empirical analysis have focused on how … paper we contribute to the literature on the latter by offering a theoretical model to explain the optimal distance that an …

We investigated the dependence of threat perception and reaction on social distance estimation. Social identity threat …, ingroup and outgroup (OSIO, Schubert and Otten, 2002) as a measure of social distance either before or after the threat … manipulation. Results show significantly differing social distance estimations as a reaction towards the threatening comment …

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces …

This paper examines the effect of organizational distance (i.e. distance between the headquarters of the bank that …

religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted ethno-linguistic fractionalization index (DELF) is based on highly … shows that this does not hold true for ethnic diversity in more developed countries. As regards the cultural distance …

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … unit, our model predicts that markups rise with distance and fall with tariffs, but these effects are heterogeneous and are …

and information costs. Specifically, we examine how distance, coordination mechanisms, and atmosphere influence the level … in two MNCs, we show that relationship atmosphere significantly reduces both types of organizing costs, whereas distance …