This short note tries to argue that distance is not necessarily harmful for 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. It is...

In this paper we revisit the influential theory of monopolistic competition and optimum product variety as developed by Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable costs of production in terms of underlying use of...

Part I -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Trade and Time Zones – What We Know -- Part II : The Time and The Pattern of Trade -- Chapter 3: Time Zone Differences and Comparative Advantage in Ricardian Model -- Chapter 4: Time Zone Differences and Trade in Heckscher-Ohlin Setup -- Chapter...