Search Results - subject:"Geographical proximity"

Did Vasco Da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2009

In his seminal publications between the 1930s and 1960s, Frederick Lane offered three hypotheses regarding the impact of the Voyages of Discovery that have guided debate ever since. First, pepper and other spice prices did not rise in European markets in the century before the 1490s, and thus...

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Distance, Power and Ideology : Diplomatic Representation in a World of Nation-States

Neumayer, Eric - 2009

Sending diplomatic missions abroad and receiving foreign missions at home is in the political and economic interest of countries. But such missions depend on domestic and foreign political will and they also cost scarce resources. This article demonstrates that the global pattern of diplomatic...

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Measuring the effects of geographical distance on stock market correlation

Eckel, Stefanie Martina; Löffler, Gunter; Maurer, Alina; … - 2009

correlations of returns are due to geographical proximity or to the simple fact that two firms are located in the same federal … federal states we would expect no increase in residual correlation (0.030−0.043 = −0.013) despite their geographical proximity … significance level for any of the distance classes and conclude that correlation of stock returns due to geographical proximity is …

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Economics discussion papers

University of Otago / Department of Economics - Dunedin : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] - Nachgewiesen 1988 - 2009,03

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Regional wages and market potential in the enlarged EU : an empirical investigation

Mathä, Thomas; Kaminaga, Allison Shwachman - 2009

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Distance, production, virtual trade and growth : a note

Mandal, Biswajit - 2015

This paper argues that distance is not necessarily harmful to trade. It is shown that there may be an increase in the production and volume of trade if time zones of the trading nations are non-overlapping. This implies a positive effect of distance on the volume of trade in general and virtual...

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