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The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...
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Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...
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The persistence of disparities is one of the most striking features of regional development. We argue that movements of labour force, instead of being an always equilibrating mechanism, can also make persistent or even reinforce such inequalities. The most advanced regions are in fact generally...
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En los últimos años, se han realizado diversos estudios a nivel mundial utilizando el modelo de crecimiento y convergencia económica, a través de países y de regiones. Para el caso de México, hasta la segunda mitad de los noventas comienza el análisis empírico de la convergencia...
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This paper constructs an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation where individuals differ in their attitude … toward uncertainty. Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous. An entrepreneur, who owns …'s willingness to work with the uncertain technology. The general equilibrium setting allows us to explore the impact of innovation …
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contrasts with the standard argument that human capital generates growth in urban areas solely through local knowledge …
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Journals moderate knowledge activity in economics. The activity of publishing article in professional journal forms … significant part of knowledge output. Output of economics articles has been growing over the time. We examine an important … question: Is there any case of institutional or location concentration in knowledge production? This paper analyses …
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agglomeration economies, a knowledge variable is assumed. Returning to a two location economy one is able to assess in graphical … terms the relation between distribution of knowledge and location of economic activities. …
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of Practice” (CoP) for understanding the dynamics of knowledge creation and sharing in Industrial Districts (IDs). The … repository” of knowledge. The source of the concept of agglomeration of firms in ID is completely different. Anyway, many …, it explains the three main concepts useful for understanding further argumentations: knowledge, ID, CoP. Next, it offers …
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El análisis input-output es una herramienta de gran potencialidad que permite profundizar en el conocimiento de la estructura productiva de un espacio económico. Por otro lado, el entramado sectorial constituye uno de los posibles factores determinantes en la capacidad de innovación de un...
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