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Multiple Markets and Spatial Agglomeration in a One Shopping Trip Model

Noguera, Jose - EconWPA - 2001

This paper analyzes a spatial competitive monopolistic model of agglomeration in which households make only one …

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Regional Convergence of Income and Labor Productivity in Mexico

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2005

Economic growth continues to be a major objective of state governments in Mexico. What role do firm location, openness … importantes para los gobiernos estatales en México. ¿Cuál es el papel de la localización de las empresas, la apertura, la … examina la competitividad de los estados en México mediante el uso de índices de localización. El estudio trata de cerrar la …

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Desenvolvimento Rural na Sociedade do Conhecimento

Guedes, Pedro; Leito, Joo; Silva, Andrea - EconWPA - 2002

Globalization has a concrete territorial expression, with remaining regional asymmetries. Writers in growth and development are far away to achieve consensus about the underpinning reasons of heterogeneity in regional performance. This constitutes an important regional policy issue. This paper...

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Spatial Proximity and Complementarities in the Trading of Tacit Knowledge

Aydogan, Neslihan; Lyon, Thomas P. - EconWPA - 2004

We model knowledge-trading coalitions in which the transfer of tacit knowledge is unverifiable and requires face-to-face contact, making spatial proximity important. When there are sufficient “complementarities” in knowledge exchange, successful exchange is facilitated if firms can meet in a...

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Spatial Dependence in the Evolution of Regional Income Distributions

Rey, Sergio J. - EconWPA - 2001

This paper introduces three measures of spatial dependence for use in the analysis of regional income distributions and their evolution. The first builds upon the notion of regional conditioning (Quah 1993), and is derived as a trace statistic from a modified Markov transition matrix. The...

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Local Interactions and Global Persistence

Oomes, Nienke A. - EconWPA - 2000

This paper studies the effects of local interactions on the distribution of employment in a Keynesian-type model with strategic complementarities. It is shown that rational expectations generate symmetric equilibria for any interaction structure except autarky. Under adaptive expectations, the...

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The Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning

Cheshire, Paul; Sheppard, Stephen - EconWPA - 2004

Although directed to the British system of Town and Country Planning this paper has relevance for many OECD countries, including some with systems of land use regulation which evolved entirely independently of the British. The paper starts by characterising the basic features of the British land...

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The Economic Impact of a Possible Irrigation-Water Shortage in Odessa Sub-Basin: Potato Production & Processing

Bhattacharjee, Sanjoy; Holland, David - EconWPA - 2005

The Columbia Basin Project (CBP) was one of the single largest projects undertaken by the Bureau of Reclamation. The venture, which started in the 1930s in Central Washington, did not entirely turn out as expected. In fact, almost half of the proposed irrigable area, located mainly in the...

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Transfer Technology Across Borders? A Reexamination

Bitzer, Jürgen; Kerekes, Monika - EconWPA - 2005

Reexamining foreign direct investment (FDI) as a potential channel for knowledge diffusion -- based on industry data from seventeen OECD countries during the period 1973-2000 -- we find that FDI-receiving countries benefit strongly from FDI-related knowledge spillovers. We do not find evidence...

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The shoe industry of Marikina City, Philippines: a developing country cluster in crisis

Scott, Allen J. - EconWPA - 2005

I initiate the discussion with a few general remarks on industrial clusters and commodity chains. I describe the main features of the shoe industry in the Philippines. The core of the industry is located in Marikina City in the northeast of the Manila Metropolitan Area. I provide a detailed...

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