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DESCRIPTION:The Competence Centre for International Economics Research (FIW) kindly in
 vites to participate in the Seminar in International Economics on the topic
  The geography of production and sourcing in the weightless economy: Eviden
 ce from open-source software Presenter: Gábor Békés (Central European Un
 iversity) Discussant: Thi Thanh Ha Doan (Economic Research Institute for AS
 EAN and East Asia) Abstract: Trade costs\, broadly defined\, limit interact
 ion between far-away economic agents and motivate them to concentrate in cl
 ose proximity to one another. The gravity equation\, which assigns a large 
 role for geographic distance as a determinant of trade costs\, has been rem
 arkably successful in explaining patterns of international and internationa
 l goods trade between firms\, services trade\, individual mobility and migr
 ation\, and even scientific collaboration. It is unclear\, however\, why di
 stance is relevant for sectors in which direct trade costs are zero. We stu
 dy patterns of interaction when the good in question is 'weightless' using 
 data from the open-source software industry. We find that importing other s
 oftware packages as dependencies is at most weakly correlated with distance
 . By contrast\, collaboration between different developers on the same piec
 e of software is strongly decaying with distance. These results suggest tha
 t geography continues to matter for goods and services where collaboration 
 is frequent and deep. The presentation if available\, will be posted after 
 the event. The seminar series is organised by the Vienna Institute for Inte
 rnational Economic Studies (wiiw) in co-operation with FIW and the European
  University Institute. The seminar provides a forum for presentation and di
 scussion of recent academic research in the field of international economic
 s.
SUMMARY:Seminar in International Economics: The geography of production and sourcin
 g in the weightless economy: Evidence from open-source software
ORGANIZER:FIW
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 aphy-of-production-and-sourcing-in-the-weightless-economy-evidence-from-ope
 n-source-software/
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