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Governmental activity, integration, and agglomeration

Ott, Ingrid; Soretz, Susanne - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper analyzes, within a regional growth model, the impact of productive governmental policy and integration on … the spatial distribution of economic activity. Integration is understood as enhancing territorial cooperation between the … which regional road networks are connected. Both integration and the characteristics of the public input crucially affect …

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The Drivers of Diaspora Donations for Development: Evidence from the Philippines

Licuanan, Victoria; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Steinmayr, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Little is known about the drivers of migrant donations to their home countries. Using data on all donations from Filipino migrants administered by the Philippine Commission on Filipinos Overseas between 1990 and 2010, this paper explores which host and home country factors are associated with...

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Identifying the Motives of Migrant Philanthropy

Lücke, Matthias; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Peuker, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Donations by migrants to community projects in their home countries (“collective remittances”) help to provide local public goods and may promote economic development. We draw on the literatures on migrant remittances and on philanthropy in general to identify possible motives for collective...

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Alone but Better Off? Adult Child Migration and Health of Elderly Parents in Moldova

Böhme, Marcus; Persian, Ruth; Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Increasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This paper investigates the e ect of migration on various...

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The Labor Market Performance of First-Generation Immigrants: Evidence for Switzerland

Golder, Stefan M. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as an indicator and natives as the reference group for the analysis. The analysis proceeds in two stops. In a first step, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are...

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Contagion effect of financial crisis on OECD stock markets

Kazi, Irfan Akbar; Guesmi, Khaled; Kaabia, Olfa - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

In this paper we investigate the contagion effect between stock markets of U.S and sixteen OECD countries due to Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009). We apply Dynamic Conditional Correlation GARCH model Engle (2002) to daily stock price data (2002-2009). In order to recognize the contagion...

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European Integration and the Case for Compensatory Regional Policy

Krieger-Boden, Christiane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing …

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Globalization, Integration and Regional Specialization

Krieger-Boden, Christiane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the … integration (such as the new economic geography, urbanization economics, and the theory of comparative advantages), surveys the …

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Social norms or low-cost heuristics? An experimental investigation of imitative behavior

Cicognani, Simona; Mittone, Luigi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper extends choice theory by allowing for the interaction between cognitive costs and social norms. The authors experimentally investigate the role of imitation and temporal decisional patterns when participants face a task which is costly in cognitive terms. They identify two main...

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What drives innovation? Causes of and consequences for nanotechnologies

Ott, Ingrid; Papilloud, Christian; Zülsdorf, Torben - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Nanotechnologies are expected to be the dominant general purpose technology of the next decades. Their market potential is immense and especially demand side arguments will have far reaching consequences for innovations. They may occur as increased miniaturization or via building completely new...

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