The distance puzzle: On the interpretation of the distance coefficient in gravity equations

Economics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 293-298

  Buch, Claudia M ^a   Kleinert, Jörn ^a   Toubal, Farid ^b  

^a KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distance coefficients; Globalization; Gravity equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942444664     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2003.10.022     Document Type: Article

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