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suffer from primacy. However, FDI is attracted if surrounding countries have fewer cities, restrictions on international … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too … trade and low market potential (income per capita). We tentatively conclude that cities are important drivers of FDI and …
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Urban renewal areas are popular but empirically understudied spatial planning instruments designed to prevent urban …
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-OECD countries. We show that most cities are highly fragmented: urban areas with more than 500,000 inhabitants are divided into 74 …Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple … review the literature on a number of salient features affecting local tax setting in an urban context. Urban local …
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We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage … distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in … skilled disproportionately sort into the biggest cities, while those with medium skill levels sort into small cities. The …
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If the threshold that triggers climate catastrophe is known with certainty, and the benefits of avoiding catastrophe are high relative to the costs, treaties can easily coordinate countries’ behavior so as to avoid the threshold. Where the net benefits of avoiding catastrophe are lower,...
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-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international achievement micro data, this paper estimates student …-level international education production functions. The use of teacher salary adjustments for outstanding performance is significantly …
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, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping techniques. Assessing the determinants of numeracy, we find school enrolment …
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In the process of economic development economies grow through various regimes, each characterized by different demographic-economic interactions. The changes in these interactions are key elements in different explanations of the escape from Malthusian stagnation. We employ time-varying vector...
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international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these …In the basic model of international environmental agreements (IEAs) (Barrett 1994, Rubio and Ulph 2006) extended by … coalitions are Stackelberg leaders and set tariffs in addition to their cap-and-trade schemes. Surprisingly, these smaller IEAs …
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We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …
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