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Getting there fast: Globalization, intercontinental flights and location of headquarters

Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

Information exchanges across firms within cities are considered to be one of the major agglomeration forces in the regional economics literature. In addition, the quality of transport infrastructures arises as one of the major determinants in the location decisions of firms across cities and...

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knowledge_diffusion_with_complex_cognition

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2003

This paper aims to understand some of the mechanisms which dominate the phenomenon of knowledge diffusion in the process that is called ‘interactive learning’. We examine how knowledge spreads in a network in which agents interact by word of mouth. We define a social network structured as a...

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Regional Inequality in India: A Fresh Look

Singh, Nirvikar; Bhandari, Laveesh; Chen, Aoyu; Khare, Aarti - EconWPA - 2004

There are concerns that regional inequality in India has increased after the economic reforms of 1991. This concern is supported by various statistical analyses. In this paper, we show that the conclusions are sensitive to what measures of attainment are used. In particular, human development...

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Spatial Analysis of Regional Income Inequality

Rey, Sergio J. - EconWPA - 2001

Questions surrounding regional economic convergence have commanded a great deal of recent attention in economics literature. As in other recent cases in the social sciences, the application of spatially explicit methods of data analysis to the convergence question has yielded important insights...

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The evolution of income inequality in the European Union

Alvarez-Garcia, Santiago; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; … - EconWPA - 2003

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. Using the information contained in the European Community Household Panel, corresponding to the four first waves. Using the inverse second order stochastic...

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Income Distributions versus Lotteries: Happiness, Response Mode Effects and Preference Reversals

Morone, Andrea; Seidl, Christian; Camacho-Cuena, Eva - EconWPA - 2004

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El Geomarketing y la distribución comercial

Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro - EconWPA - 2004

Geomarketing is a powerfull recently developed scientific methodology which allows decision makers to visualise marketing strategies and discover those areas that are most likely to produce results. Marketing and geography leads to a whole system and provides adequate tools to analyse the...

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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in $ parity, because they are linked to Euro. This is due to USA …'s approach to control other nations in the world,through unilateral Army power,tie up of domestic markets towards USA, and … Pumping wealth from developed nations. A Notional Balance sheet of USA, balances only with a Loss to the Assets(Debit). This …

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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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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

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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