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Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...

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Urban-Biased Growth : A Macroeconomic Analysis

Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...

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All Clear for Takeoff : Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization

Howell, Sabrina T.; Jang, Yeejin; Kim, Hyeik; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners target and manage these assets? And does the contract form--control rights (concession) vs. outright ownership (sale)--matter? We explore these questions in the context of global...

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Broadband Internet Access, Economic Growth, and Wellbeing

Johnson, Kathryn R.; Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Between 2000 and 2008, access to high-speed, broadband internet grew significantly in the United States, but there is debate on whether access to high-speed internet improves or harms wellbeing. We find that a ten percent increase in the proportion of county residents with access to broadband...

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Knowledge Flows, Technological Change and Regional Growth in the European Union

Runiewicz-Wardyn, Małgorzata - 2013

Knowledge as a Driver of Technological Change and Regional Growth -- Innovative, Technological, and Growth Capacities of the EU Regions -- Determinants of RISs' Efficiency of the EU Regions -- The Role of Intra-, Inter- and Extra-Regional Sources of Knowledge Spillovers in the EU Regions....

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Spatial Knowledge Spillovers and the Dynamics of Agglomeration and Regional Growth

Keilbach, Max C. - 2000 - 1st ed. 2000.

When considering the dynamics of regional growth rates, one usually observes growth convergence on spatial aggregates … but non-convergence or even divergence within smaller regions of different type. This book suggests various approaches to … implemented on a locally recursive simulation tool - cellular automata. Convergence regressions from different runs of the …

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Mechanics of Spatial Growth

Cai, Sheng; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; Xiang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a dynamic spatial growth model to explore the role of trade and internal migration in the process of spatial development and aggregate growth. Growth is shaped by the best global and local ideas that contribute to the local stock of knowledge. Global ideas diffuse more to locations...

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Regional Growth and Regional Policy Within the Framework of European Integration : Proceedings of a Conference on the Occasion of 25 Years Institute for Regional Research at the Un...

Peschel, Karin - 1996

This volume contains the contributions from eight renowned referents on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Regional Research at the University of Kiel. The contributions characterize main fields of interest of the Institute's research

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Economic Growth in the Regions of Europe : Theory and Empirical Evidence from a Spatial Growth Model

Sardadvar, Sascha - 2011

Models with Spatial Externalities -- 4 Convergence: Theory and Evidence -- Part II: A Model of Regional Growth -- 5 Remarks … regarding the evolution of output, and how both convergence and divergence processes may occur. Using a spatial econometric …

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Regionalisation, Growth, and Economic Integration

Korres, George M. (contributor) - 2007

This book analyses the process of regionalisation and plots its future development. Regionalisation is a common feature of the changing territorial organisation of European states today. Regionalisation alone, however, cannot produce any of the benefits attributed to it without looking into the...

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