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Productivity as if space mattered: an application to factor markets across China

Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Optimal production decisions depend on local market characteristics. This paper develops a model to explain firm labor demand and firm density across regions. Firms vary in their technology to combine imperfectly substitutable worker types, and locate across regions with distinct distributions...

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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

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Regional Distribution and Spatial Impact of FDI in Greece: evidence from firm-level data

Monastiriotis, Vassilis; Jordaan, Jacob A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Studies on the productivity spillovers of FDI have concentrated on the national-sectoral level. As a result, little is known about the impact of FDI on absolute and relative regional economic performance. In this paper we examine this issue by relying on a unique dataset of over 20,000 Greek...

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Offshoring: general equilibrium effects on wages, production and trade

Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration’ and shows that this allows straightforward derivation of the general equilibrium effects on...

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The long-term consequences of regional specialization

Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization* What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run,...

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Powering up: Latin America's energy challenges: Bolivia’s nationalised natural gas: social and economic stability under morales

Kaup, Brent Z. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

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Powering up: Latin America's energy challenges: state or market?: strategic choices in Brazil’s energy sector

Landau, Georges D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

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Regional growth and regional decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the ’hard problem’ of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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The long term consequences of resource based specialization

Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

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Understanding the origins and pace of Africa’s urban transition

Fox, Sean - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper the author argues that urbanisation should be understood as a global historical process driven primarily by population dynamics stimulated by technological and institutional change. In particular, disease control and expanded access to surplus energy supplies are necessary and...

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