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economics models do not fully capture the impact of political institutions, particularly fiscal decentralization, on urban size … decentralization, in conjunction with political control, portends a more complex environment for urban agglomeration and offers a new … wherein fiscal decentralization is negatively associated with urban agglomeration. Such phenomena can be attributed to the …
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economics models do not fully capture the impact of political institutions, particularly fiscal decentralization, on urban size … decentralization, in conjunction with political control, portends a more complex environment for urban agglomeration and offers a new … wherein fiscal decentralization is negatively associated with urban agglomeration. Such phenomena can be attributed to the …
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This paper develops a model for analysing problems related to centralisation and decentralisation. The model is of the new economic geography type, in which there are agglomeration gains in cities but not in rural areas. These gains are counteracted by residential preferences. We show that, even...
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A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
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large tradable firm in a municipality, over nontradable formal and informal jobs in the case of Mexico. Results indicate …
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Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all … of the manufacturing belt in and around Mexico City and the formation of broadly specialized industry centers located in … northern Mexico, relatively close to the United States. The North American Free Trade Agreement is likely to reinforce these …
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We use the model developed by Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny (1991) to examine the causal relationship between institutions as measured by economic freedom and industry employment, and then given the causality, examine how the amount of employment in these causal industries influences economic...
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This paper follows an algorithm that considers different dimensions of linkages across service and manufacturing industries to identify a cluster configuration of the Mexican economy and analyze their role in the economic performance of regions. It identifies 24 clusters and analyzes their...
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