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The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy : Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet
von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2015
Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...
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Smart Cities are Big Cities -- Comparative Advantage in Chinese Cities
Hu, Shiwei - 2014
The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other … workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that 'Chinese …
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The Domestic Segment of Global Supply Chains in China Under State Capitalism
Tang, Heiwai - 2014
estimate direct and indirect domestic value added in exports of different types of firm. We find that in China, both state … downstream within industries. These findings suggest that SOEs still play an important role in shaping China's exports …
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Gravity, Distance, and International Trade
Baier, Scott L. - 2017
We review and interpret the main theoretical developments in the gravity literature from its very early, a-theoretical applications to the latest structural contributions. We also discuss challenges and implement methods to estimate empirical gravity equations. We finish with a presentation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960473
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Market Potential and Global Growth over the Long Twentieth Century
Jacks, David S. - 2018
We examine the evolution of market potential and its role in driving economic growth over the long twentieth century. Theoretically, we exploit a structural gravity model to derive a closed-form solution for a widely-used measure of market potential. We are thus able to express market potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910940
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Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2009
The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's location however not only determines its absolute geography, it also pins down its relative position on the globe vis-a-vis other countries. This paper assesses the...
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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics
Moreno-Cruz, Juan; Taylor, M. Scott - 2021
We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2021
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
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Economic Geography within and between European Nations : The Role of Market Potential and Density across Space and Time
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2021
In explaining the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, urban economics and new economic geography (NEG) dominate recent research in economics. A main difference between these two approaches is that NEG stresses the role of spatial linkages whereas urban economics does not do so. We...
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Geography Rules Too! Economic Development and the Geography of Institutions
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021
To explain cross-country income differences, research has recently focused on the so-called deep determinants of economic development, notably institutions and geography. This paper sheds a different light on these determinants. We use spatial econometrics to analyse the importance of the...
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