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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000

More than 17 percent of households in American central cities live in poverty; in American suburbs, just 7.4 percent of households live in poverty. The income elasticity of demand for land is too low for urban poverty to be the result of wealthy individuals' wanting to live where land is cheap...

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Growth in Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1991

Recent theories of economic growth, including Romer (1986), Porter (1989) and Jacobs (1969), have stressed the role of technological spillovers in generating growth. Because such knowledge spillovers are particularly effective in cities, where communication between people is more extensive, data...

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A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013

poverty and weak governance reduce the ability to address the negative externalities that come with density. This paper models … down. For large cities with weak governments, draconian policies may be the only way to curb negative externalities … to reduce negative externalities is less costly when city populations are low or institutions are strong, but that public …

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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions

Ashraf, Nava - 2016

Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both …

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Dynamic R&D Competition

Grossman, Gene M. - 1985

We study a simple, two-stage, stochastic patent race involving two firms. We examine the behavior of the participants as they gain the lead or fall behind in the race. We find that the leader engages in R&D more intensively than does the follower, and that both firms intensify their efforts if...

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Trade, Knowledge Spillovers, and Growth

Grossman, Gene M. - 1990

In this paper, we examine one channel through which the trade regime might affect growth in the long run. We model endogenous technological progress that results from profit maximizing investments by far-sighted entrepreneurs. Productivity in the research lab depends upon the "stock of knowledge...

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The Economic Approach to Social Capital

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000

To identify the determinants of social capital formation, it is necessary to understand the social capital investment decision of individuals. Individual social capital should then be aggregated to measure the social capital of a community. This paper assembles the evidence that supports the...

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What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1999

Using a sample of Harvard undergraduates, we analyze trust and social capital in two experiments. Trusting behavior and trustworthiness rise with social connection; differences in race and nationality reduce the level of trustworthiness. Certain individuals appear to be persistently more...

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Infant-Industry Protection Reconsidered : The Case of Informational Barriers to Entry

Grossman, Gene M. - 1987

In industries with imperfect consumer information, the lack of a reputation puts latecomers at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis established firms. We consider whether the existence of such informational barriers to entry provides a valid reason for temporarily protecting infant producers of...

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Foreign Counterfeiting of Status Goods

Grossman, Gene M. - 1986

We study the positive and normative effects of counterfeiting, i.e.,trademark infringement, in markets where consumers are not deceived by forgeries.The fact that consumers are willing to pay more for counterfeits than for generic merchandise of similar quality suggests that they value the...

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