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Benefits and Challenges of Integrating South and Southeast Asia

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - CESifo - 2012

In recent decades, Southeast Asian economies have prospered through an outward-oriented strategy, through intra-regional integration under the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) initiative and through participating in the East Asian production networks. In the 1970-80’s, South...

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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Marchand, Beyza Ural - CESifo - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and of the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative...

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The IOC's Midas Touch: Summer Olympics and City Growth

Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - CESifo - 2013

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...

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Lisbon Agenda, Regional Innovation System and the New EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2011

The EU’s cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth....

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Application of Regionally Varying Additionality Degrees in the Practice of EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2010

The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions,...

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A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries

Brueckner, Jan K.; Selod, Harris - CESifo - 2008

This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters “squeeze” the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...

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A Century of Shocks: The Evolution of the German City Size Distribution 1925 – 1999

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2006

The empirical literature on city size distributions has mainly focused on the USA. The first major contribution of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the evolution and structure of the West-German city size distribution. Using a unique annual data set that covers most of the 20th...

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The Development of Cities in Italy 1300 – 1861

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2007

city sizes and the city-size distribution as a whole to highlight the main characteristics of Italy’s urban system such as … the differences between northern and southern Italy. Our second, and main, contribution is that our data allow for panel … determinants of Italy’s city growth invariably are physical geography and political predominance. Also the North-South difference …

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The Apple doesn't Fall far from the Tree: Location of Start-Ups Relative to Incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

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Trade and Development in a Labor Surplus Economy

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2005

This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...

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