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International R&D Spillovers, Trade and Productivity in Major OECD Countries

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1996

In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the seven largest industrialized countries (G-7); (2) analyze the effect of spillovers on the structure of production, i.e., the effects on factor demand such as labor and investment...

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R&D Spillovers and Global Growth

Bayoumi, Tamim - 1996

We examine the growth promoting roles of R&D, international R&D spillovers, and trade in a world econometric model. A country can raise its total factor productivity by investing in R&D. But countries can also boost their productivity by trading with other countries that have large stocks of...

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Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000

More than 17 percent of households in American central cities live in poverty; in American suburbs, just 7.4 percent of households live in poverty. The income elasticity of demand for land is too low for urban poverty to be the result of wealthy individuals' wanting to live where land is cheap...

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The Economics of Urban Density

Duranton, Gilles - 2020

Urban density boosts productivity and innovation, improves access to goods and services, reduces typical travel distances, encourages energy-efficient construction and transport, and facilitates sharing scarce amenities. However, density is also synonymous with crowding, makes living and moving...

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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise

Markusen, James R. - 2000

Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...

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The Economic Geography of the Internet Age

Leamer, Edward E. - 2001

This paper combines the perspective of an international economist with that of an economic geographer to reflect on how and to what extent the Internet will affect the location of economic activity. Even after the very substantial transportation and communication improvements during the 20th...

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Scale Economies and the Geographic Concentration of Industry

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2000

-specific externalities of some sort. Our willingness to accept evidence of agglomeration economies depends on how well key estimation … regional characteristics, simultaneity in regional data, and multiple sources of externalities. Two empirical results appear to …-educated workers in the local labor force, which is consistent with localized human-capital externalities, and (b) long-run industry …

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Learning in Cities

Glaeser, Edward - 1997

Alfred Marshall argues that industrial agglomerations exist in part because individuals can" learn skills from each other when they live and work in close proximity to one another. An" increasing amount of evidence suggests that the informational role of cities is a primary reason for" their...

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Fluctuations, Instability, and Agglomeration

Krugman, Paul - 1994

Recent models in economic geography suggest that there may be very large numbers of equilibrium spatial structures. Simulations suggest, however, that the structures that emerge are surprisingly orderly, and often seem approximately to follow simple rules about the spacing of urban sites. This...

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Self-Defeating Regional Concentration

Matsuyama, Kiminori - 1993

We present a simple model of a two-region economy in which undesirable concentration may occur. With freedom to choose where to live, individuals in this economy concentrate into one region in their pursuit of better life, and end up becoming worse off. We characterize the conditions under which...

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