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Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2012

This paper studies the consequences of debt policies on the spatial distribution of output in a two-country model. It departs from the usual set up of local public finance by relaxing the assumption of balanced budget. Further, to single out the pure effect of debt the paper eliminates effects...

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Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential

Brülhart, Marius; Crozet, Matthieu; Koenig, Pamina - HAL - 2004

We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...

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A small model of equilibrium mechanisms in a city

Palma, André De; Proost, Stef; Loo, Saskia Van Der - HAL - 2013

We use a simple economy with two interconnected geographical zones. Individuals can live and work in one of the two zones or can commute between them. This model is used to explore the dynamics of housing and work decisions after a permanent shock in labour demand occurred in one of the two...

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Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited

Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013

We exploit the power of the Alonso-Mills-Muth (AMM) urban economics model and show that various utility functions and plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence of a "rich" center and more complex socio-spatial...

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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …

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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …

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Urbanism, an overview

Palma, André De; Guimard, Alexandre - HAL - 2014

Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …

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Transportation Infrastructure and Development in Ghana

Jedwab, Rémi; Moradi, Alexandre - HAL - 2011

. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …

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Trade liberalization and poverty dynamics in Vietnam 2002-2006

Coello, Barbara; Fall, Madior; Suwa-Eisenmann, Akiko - HAL - 2010

This paper shows the evolution of poverty in Vietnam during the deepening of trade liberalization and examines the impact of trade-related variables at the household level. The study is based on a panel dataset of households followed in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Trade-related variables at the...

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Trade liberalization and heterogeneous within-firm productivity improvements

Bas, Maria; Ledezma, Ivan - HAL - 2008

This paper develops an intra-industry model of trade with heterogeneous firms to investigate the impact of trade on the evolution of within firm productivity. The main contribution is to incorporate endogenous labor productivity gains. Heterogeneous firms have different incentives to invest in...

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