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Land Use and Transportation Costs in the Brazilian Amazon
Reis, Eustaquio; Weinhold, Diana - EconWPA - 2004
Transport infrastructure improvements are considered to be one of the most effective tools for stimulating economic … roads and land clearing may be much more complex. In particular, we find that decreasing transport costs in areas that have … established settlements is associated with lower rates of land clearing. Constructing roads into relatively pristine areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556211
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Progress in rail reform
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
On 5 August 1998 the Treasurer referred progress in rail reform for inquiry and report within 12 months. The Commission is to identify progress made in rail reform, as well as areas which could be subject to further reforms and the benefits of pursuing further reforms, and is to differentiate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118885
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062513
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119035
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Market integration for agricultural output markets in Peru: the role of public infrastructure
Escobal, Javier; Vásquez, Arturo - EconWPA - 2005
This paper shows the impact that investment in infrastructure may have on the efficiency of agricultural products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556218
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Half a World: Regional inequality in five great federations
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556224
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How Do Criminals Locate? Crime and Spatial Dependence in Minas Gerais
Puech, Frédéric - EconWPA - 2005
The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of a spatial dependence of crime rates at a local level in the case of municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the 26 Brazilian states. Results suggest the existence of a positive spatial autocorrelation of municipal violent crime rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556225
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The Indeterminacy of Equilibrium City Formation under Monopolistic Competition and Increasing Returns
Berliant, Marcus; Kung, Fan- chin - EconWPA - 2004
We study the indeterminacy of equilibrium in the Fujita-Krugman (1995) model of city formation under monopolistic competition and increasing returns. Both the number and the locations of cities are endogenously determined. Assuming smooth transportation costs, we examine equilibria in...
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Growth and Convergence across the U.S: Evidence from County-Level Data
Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005
We use U.S. county data (3,058 observations) and 41 conditioning variables to study growth and convergence. Using OLS and 3SLS-IV we report on the full sample and metro, non-metro, and 5 regional samples: (1) OLS yields convergence rates around 2 percent; 3SLS yields 6–8 percent; (2)...
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076902