The roles of cultural and institutional distance in international trade: Evidence from China's trade with the Belt and Road countries

A Liu, C Lu, Z Wang - China Economic Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Cultural distance and institutional distance have been playing increasingly significant roles
in international trade. Recently, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by China has …

Familiarity breeds investment: Diaspora networks and international investment

D Leblang - American political science review, 2010 - cambridge.org
What explains cross-national patterns of international portfolio and foreign direct investment
(FDI)? While existing explanations focus on the credibility of a policy maker's commitment …

International trade and tourism flows: An extension of the gravity model

M Santana-Gallego, FJ Ledesma-Rodríguez… - Economic …, 2016 - Elsevier
The empirical relationship between trade and tourism has been explored during recent
years finding that international tourism promotes international trade between countries …

Cultural intelligence development during short-term study abroad programmes: The role of cultural distance and prior international experience

M Iskhakova, A Bradly, B Whiting… - Studies in Higher …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cultural intelligence (CQ) is critical to students' academic and career success. Drawing on
experiential learning theory, the current study investigates the extent to which students' prior …

Research on global grain trade network pattern and its driving factors

J Duan, C Nie, Y Wang, D Yan, W Xiong - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Trading systems are essential in promoting global food security. With the growing proportion
of global food consumption obtained through international trade, the global food trade …

United in diversity? The convergence of cultural values among EU member states and candidates

P Akaliyski - European Journal of Political Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The European Union (EU) is considered to be a unique economic and political
union that integrates most European countries. This article focuses on the cultural aspect of …

A new dataset of cultural distances for European countries and regions

A Kaasa, M Vadi, U Varblane - Research in International Business and …, 2016 - Elsevier
This article documents a new dataset of cultural distance measures both at the country and
regional levels in Europe. These measures were calculated using data from the European …

Culture-based development in the USA: culture as a factor for economic welfare and social well-being at a county level

A Tubadji, BJ Osoba, P Nijkamp - Journal of Cultural economics, 2015 - Springer
This paper explores the link between culture and regional development in USA counties by
explicitly including an arts variable in an attitudes-driven culture-based development (CBD) …

Cultural distance in international business and management: from mean-based to variance-based measures

S Beugelsdijk, R Maseland, M Onrust… - … Journal of Human …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Extant practice in international management is to measure cultural distance as a nation-to-
nation comparison of country means on cultural values, thereby ignoring the cultural …

Cultural gravity effects among migrants: A comparative analysis of the EU15

A Tubadji, P Nijkamp - Economic Geography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This article introduces cultural gravity as a concept that serves to better disentangle the
direction and magnitude of the effects from migration, which is controversial in recent …