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Regional growth and national development: transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the regional Kuznets curve in the East and the West
Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …
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Here be startups: exploring a young digital cluster in inner East London
Nathan, Max; Vandore, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...
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Agricultural returns and conflict: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy intervention programme in Rwanda
Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy to investigate the impact of conflict-induced displacement and the re-settlement policy on household agricultural...
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The bright side of social capital: how 'bridging' makes Italian provinces more innovative
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Percoco, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a consensus on its impact on local innovative performance: some empirical analyses emphasize a positive effect, others speak about a ‘dark side’ of social capital. This paper...
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Powering up: Latin America's energy challenges: introduction: beyond the national: regional challenges in Latin America’s energy sector
Harmer, Tanya; Burton, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
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Powering up: Latin America's energy challenges: oil and twenty-first century socialism in Latin America: Venezuela and Ecuador
Philip, George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
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Powering up: Latin America's energy challenges: the second Malvinas crisis?: Argentina and oil prospecting off the Falkland Islands
Freije, Tom - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
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Urban development and air pollution: evidence from a global panel of cities
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We exploit a unique panel of 75 metro areas (‘cities’) across the globe and employ a cityfixed effects model to identify the determinants of within-city changes in air pollution concentration between 2005 and 2011. Increasing car and population densities significantly reduce air pollution...
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Local economic conditions and the nature of new housing supply
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Rouwendal, Jan; Vermeulen, Wouter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We present a modified open monocentric city model that assumes that land is available for conversion into new housing throughout the city. The model predicts that positive local income shocks (i) increase the city’s share of multi-family housing in new construction and (ii) lead to the...
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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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