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Asymmetric Information, Entrepreneurial Activity, and the Scope of Fiscal Policy in an Open Regional Economy

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2010

We analyze two hitherto little studied but salient questions concerning the trinity of asymmetric information, entrepreneurial activity, and the scope of fiscal policy in an open regional economy. First, we use a two period model to analyze the contractual relationship between entrepreneurs and...

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Did Zipf anticipate socio-economic spatial networks?

Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012

investigates - from a methodological viewpoint - the relationship between network connectivity and the rank-size rule (or Zipf …'s law) in an urban-economic network constellation. After a review of the literature, we address in particular the following …-economic network theories (e.g. entropy maximization, spatial interaction theory, etc.); (ii) the nature of the analytical relationship …

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Spatial heterogeneity and the wage curve revisited

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2004

Most "wage curve" studies treat local labour markets as independent "islands" in the national economy. However, when a local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration...

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Forecasting regional labour market developments under spatial heterogeneity and spatial autocorrelation

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter - 2005

Because of heterogeneity across regions, economic policy measures are increasingly targeted at the regional level. As a result, the need for economic forecasts at a sub-national level is rapidly increasing. The data available to compute regional forecasts is usually based on a pseudo-panel that...

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Regional inequality and human capital quality : the impact of technology on the arrival rate of employment offers

Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2013

This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a 'search & matching' framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...

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The dynamics of agglomeration processes and their contribution to regional development across the EU

Dirzu, Madalina-Stefania; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

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Quality and inequality in regional and urban systems

Kourtit, Karima (ed.); Nijkamp, Peter (ed.); … - 2018

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Quality and inequality in urban and regional systems

Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter; Stough, Roger - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 5 (2018) 4, pp. E1-E5

In the aftermath of both ongoing globalisation (with both widening and deepening effects on countries, regions and cities) and structural changes resulting from the 2008 economic recession, regions and cities in our world are confronted with a different arena of players, performances and...

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