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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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HALF LIFE OR HALF CONVERGENCE? ENDOGENOUS IDENTIFICATION OF REGIONAL CLUBS ACROSS EUROPE 1980-2002
Battisti, Michele; Vaio, Granfranco Di - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera …
Assessing regional growth and convergence across Europe is a matter of primary importance, either in light of the … structural heterogeneities and spatial effects could fail to detect club convergence phenomena. In this paper, we adopt a … spatially filtered mixture regression approach that endogenously identifies regional clubs of beta-­convergence, in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756561
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Institutions and geography: Empirical test of spatial growth models for European regions
Arbia, Giuseppe; Battisti, Michele; Di Vaio, Gianfranco - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2009
the regional output per worker and raises the speed of convergence. By contrast, the pure geographical metrics is … underperforming, while underestimating the convergence dynamics. …
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Wachstumsregionen fernab der Metropolen : Chancen, Potentiale und Strategien : gemeinsame Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Kongresses für Standort- und Regionalmanagement Euregia Bodens...
Köhler, Stefan (ed.) - 2007
Die neuen Leitbilder und Handlungsstrategien für die Raumentwicklung in Deutschland greifen die veränderten räumlichen Rahmenbedingungen auf, wie sie sich vor dem Hintergrund der Globalisierung und des demographischen Wandels in den letzten Jahren herauskristallisiert haben. Eine...
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Market Size and Spatial Growth - Evidence from Germany's Post-War Population Expulsions
Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Virtually all theories of economic growth predict a positive relationship between population size and productivity. In this paper I study a particular historical episode to provide direct evidence for the empirical relevance of such scale effects. In the aftermath of the Second World War about...
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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
Hornbeck, Richard - 2019
We examine impacts of market integration on the development of American manufacturing, as railroads expanded through the latter half of the 19th century. Using new county-by-industry data from the Census of Manufactures, we estimate substantial impacts on manufacturing productivity from relative...
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Persistence and Path Dependence in the Spatial Economy
Allen, Treb - 2020
How much of the spatial distribution of economic activity today is determined by history rather than by geographic fundamentals? And if history matters for the distribution, does it also affect overall efficiency? This paper develops a tractable theoretical and empirical framework that aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482278
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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets
Mitchener, Kris James - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and...
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The Greenness of China : Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
Zheng, Siqi - 2009
China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank 74 major Chinese cities with respect to their household carbon footprint. We find that the "greenest" cities based on this criterion are Huaian and Suqian...
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