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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?
Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014
destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888453
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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality
Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2014
We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877821
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Knowledge-Capital Meets New Economic Geography
Egger, Peter; Gruber, Stefan; Larch, Mario; … - CESifo - 2005
We incorporate the now standard knowledge-capital model of multinational firms in a new economic geography setting. The theoretical predictions of our model suggest that unskilled labor mobility leads to less concentration of production than skilled labor mobility does. This is in line with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405953
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Biodiversity and Geography
Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2007
The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406256
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The Empirical Relevance of the New Economic Geography: Testing for a Spatial Wage Structure in Germany
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - CESifo - 2000
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves away from centres of economic activity, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196275
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The Old-Boy Network and the Quality of Entrepreneurs
Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - CESifo - 2010
We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub … firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs’ types. Network membership is observable, which … allows lenders to offer different interest rates to network and stand-alone entrepreneurs. We show that a network outcome can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583661
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Two-Sided Markets and Electronic Intermediaries
Jullien, Bruno - CESifo - 2004
The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to illustrate some of the results that emerge in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181364
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More Similar Firms - More Similar Regions? On the Role of Firm Heterogeneity for Agglomeration
Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2012
In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598915
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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386354
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The Role of Standards in Eco-innovation: Lessons for Policymakers
Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Werf, Edwin van der - CESifo - 2013
discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and … contribution to positive network externalities, and the extent to which they are substitutes or complements to environmental policy … instruments. Finally we discuss how governments might contribute to eco-innovation by selecting, stimulating or creating (inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667411