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Output, Growth, and Convergence in a Creative Region : An Analysis of Some Measurement Issues

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017

creative regions. We focus first (second) on absolute (relative) convergence. In the absolute (relative) convergence case, the … convergence case, we analyze how to estimate the speed of convergence parameter (σ) and then discuss the relationship between the … variance of y<sub>j</sub>(t) and that of y<sub>j</sub>(0). In the relative convergence case, we study the error associated with …

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Schumpeterian Creative Class Competition, Innovation Policy, and Regional Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2018

We focus on a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida. The creative class is broadly composed of existing and candidate entrepreneurs. The general question we analyze concerns the effects of Schumpeterian competition between existing and candidate entrepreneurs on economic growth...

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Positive and Negative Externalities in Innovation, Trade, and Regional Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2013

We analyze the interactions between positive and negative externalities in innovation and trade for economic growth in a region when this region is part of an aggregate economy consisting of two regions. In both regions consumers have constant relative risk aversion preferences, there is human...

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Human Capital, Knowledge Spillovers, and One Kind of Semi-Endogenous Regional Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2013

We study the implications of the interaction between human capital and knowledge spillovers for one kind of semi-endogenous economic growth in a region. We focus on two cases. In the first (second) case, there is no growth (growth) in the stock of human capital but knowledge spillovers are...

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Project Financing, Entrepreneurial Activity, and Investment in the Presence of Asymmetric Information

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2011

We analyze a two-period signaling model in which a representative entrepreneur in a regional economy has a project that generates a random cash flow and that requires investment that the entrepreneur raises from a competitive market. The project's type is known to the entrepreneur but not to the...

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A Note on Optimal Income Redistribution in a Creative Region

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017

We study optimal income redistribution in a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida and thereby extend aspects of the recent analysis in Batabyal and Beladi (2017). Using the terminology of these researchers, members of the creative class are either artists or engineers. This...

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Space and the Environment : An Introduction to the Special Issue

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2019

We have two objectives in this special issue. First, we bring together in one place, original research that sheds light on the ways in which the notion of “space” affects the conceptualization of natural resource and environmental problems. Second, given this conceptualization, we show how...

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A Stochastic Model of Competition Between Two Cities for Members of the Creative Class

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2019

Batabyal and Yoo (2019) have recently obtained a significant result in their analysis of the use of utilitarian and Rawlsian policies by two cities to attract the creative class. They show that if one city switches to a Rawlsian or more egalitarian objective when the other city remains...

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Physical Capital Mobility, the Educational and Quality Aspects of Creative Capital, and Output Production

Porter, Alden - 2016

We analyze two theoretical models of the connections between physical capital mobility, education in and the quality of creative capital, and the production of output in a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida. Our first model focuses on a single region which produces a...

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Technology, Learning, and Long Run Economic Growth in Leading and Lagging Regions

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2014

We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...

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