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Location Dynamics and Knowledge Agglomeration

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

A simple economic activity location rule is considered. Under this rule, one regards that location decisions depend on the presence or the absence of agglomeration economies. Considering a three-location economy, the system that is built leads, under certain conditions, to a saddle-path...

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Regional business cycles in New Zealand:Do they exist? What might drive them?

Hall, Viv B; McDermott, C. John - EconWPA - 2005

We use National Bank of New Zealand Regional Economic Activity data, to identify and characterise classical business cycle turning points, for New Zealand’s 14 regions and aggregate New Zealand activity. Using Concordance statistic measures, logistic model and GMM estimation methods,...

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Space, Growth and Technology: an Integrated Dynamic Approach

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...

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On the Distribution of City Sizes

Cordoba, Juan Carlos - EconWPA - 2003

The city size distribution of many countries is remarkably well approximated by a Pareto distribution. We study what constraints this regularity imposes on standard urban models. We find that under general conditions urban models must have (i) a balanced growth path and (ii) a Pareto...

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Spatial Clustering, Inequality and Income Convergence

Janikas, Mark V.; Rey, Sergio J. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the relationship between spatial clustering and inequality at the county scale with overall state per capita income in the U.S. over the period 1969-2000. For each of the 48 coterminous states we examine measures of inequality and spatial clustering and explore how a state's...

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Convergence and space

Rey, Sergio J.; Janikas, Mark V. - EconWPA - 2003

The study of regional income convergence continues to attract enormous attention. Recent emphasis has been placed on the underlying spatial dimensions of regional growth processes both from theoretical and empirical perspectives, as well as from exploratory and confirmatory methodological...

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Is Central Paris still that rich?

Gilli, Frederic - EconWPA - 2005

From 1975 to 1999, employment in Paris metropolitan area has become more and more decentralized. This deconcentration is almost half spread and half clustered. Parallel to the sprawl of jobs, the growth of a services oriented economy has led to an increase in sectoral concentration. But there...

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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies

Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005

This is a monograph that presents both a comprehensive literature review and original research results on the diffusion … and the implications of e-business technologies. The diffusion of e-business technologies among firms is regarded as part …

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The international diffusion of new technologies: a multi-technology analysis of latecomer advantage and global economic integration

Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2004

The diffusion of modern, efficient technology has far-reaching consequences for the geography of economic activity …. To investigate these claims we use event-history analysis to estimate the determinants of diffusion speed across a large … developed countries. Trade openness is also found to influence the rate of diffusion positively for all three technologies. Yet …

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Specification Analysis of Option Pricing Models Based on Time- Changed Levy Processes

Huang, Jingzhi; Wu, Liuren - EconWPA - 2004

the return process and generate stochastic volatilities from two different sources, the jump component and the diffusion …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077041

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