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The District and the Global Economy: Exporting versus Foreign Location

Basevi, Giorgio; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper studies the welfare implications of the location decisions of innovative newcomers that, though spinning off an industrial district, may choose whether to locate inside or outside its borders. Even if this choice has always been relevant, globalization has turned the issue, whether to...

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Core-Periphery Patterns of Generalized Transport Costs: France, 1978-98

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a methodology to compute transport costs at low infra-country geographical levels. This simultaneously accounts for the real network infrastructure, a distance cost (fuel, repair, tolls), and a time opportunity cost (wages, insurance and general charges, vehicle use). When...

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Regional Underdevelopment: Is FDI the Solution? A Semiparametric Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Wakelin, Katharine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In this Paper we aim to examine the regional impact of foreign-owned establishments on the performance of domestic establishments in the electronics industry in the UK. We use establishment-level data taken from the UK Census of Production (the ARD) to this end. In the econometric specification,...

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The Lifecycle of Regions

Audretsch, David B; Falck, Oliver; Feldman, Maryann P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Major economic transitions, even when they are disruptive, do not occur instantaneously but rather occur over time, as regions within a country change at different rates. Accordingly, these dynamics may be reflected in a geographic lifecycle with different regions characterized by different...

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Taking the Bite Out of Fiscal Competition

Justman, Moshe; Thisse, Jacques-François; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Regions can benefit by offering infrastructure services that are differentiated by quality, thus segmenting the market for industrial location. Regions that compete on infrastructure quality have an incentive to increase the degree of differentiation between them. This places an upper bound on...

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Will East Germany Become a New Mezzogiorno?

Boltho, Andrea; Carlin, Wendy; Scaramozzino, Pasquale - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Despite massive regional policy efforts, GDP per capita in Southern Italy has only briefly converged on Northern Italian levels (during the 1960s). Failure since then is associated with a policy switch from investment towards income maintenance, with reduced wage sensitivity to regional labour...

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New-Firm Start-ups in Italy

Audretsch, David B; Vivarelli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper applies a modified version of the `income choice' model to explain variations in new-firm formation across Italian provinces over the period 1985-8. Based on a panel data of start-up activity in 78 Italian provinces and using two different databases, we find support for the overall...

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The International Financial Integration of China and India

Lane, Philip R.; Schmukler, Sergio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a … small global share of privately-held external assets and liabilities (with the exception of China’s FDI liabilities), these … “short equity, long debt.” Third, China and India have improved their net external positions over the last decade although …

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China's Great Leap: Forward or Backward? Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster

An, Mark Yuying; Li, Wei; Yang, Dennis Tao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China …

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Can Production Subsidies Foster Export Activity? Evidence from Chinese Firm Level Data

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Yu, Zhihong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a unique firm level data set from the Chinese manufacturing sector, this paper analyses the impact of production subsidies on firms’ export performance. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies stimulate export activity, although this effect is conditional on firm...

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