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Geographical Concentration and Economic Growth: Do Externalities Matter?

Nica, Mihai - EconWPA - 2004

Regardless of the reasons leading to its formation, it is widely accepted that geographical concentration of economic activity triggers increases in productivity. However, there are almost no studies that analyze the relationship between geographical concentration and economic growth. Moreover,...

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Convergence in Mississippi: A Spatial Approach.

Nica, Mihai - EconWPA - 2004

Mississippi constitutes an interesting case study for analyzing the income convergence process because of several characteristics, such as the fairly large number of counties, its relative homogeneous economy and its low percapita income compared with the rest of the U.S. This study analyzes the...

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Creating and Enforcing Norms, With Special Reference to Sanctions

Posner, Richard; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

Two central puzzles about social norms are how they are enforced and how they are created or modified. The sanctions …-costly. Problems in creating and enforcing norms are related to which sanctions are employed. We use our analysis of enforcement and … creation of norms to analyze the scope of feasible government action either to promote desirable norms or to repress …

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