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...

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...

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...

This paper aims to explain that distance may not always be harmful for international trade, unlike the explanations provided by the gravity model. In case of service trade distance may be helpful instead, because of the existence of non-overlapping time zones between two trading countries. So,...