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Hanlon, Walker; Miscio, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by introducing a simple dynamic spatial equilibrium model that incorporates spillovers within and across industries, as well as city-size effects. The model generates a dynamic panel-data estimation equation. We...

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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Urban Accounting and Welfare

Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions through...

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Growth in Regions

La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use a newly assembled sample of 1,503 regions from 82 countries to compare the speed of per capita income …

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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Lacombe, Donald J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. However, as small businesses, they are likely to face credit rationing in financial markets. If true then policies that promote lending to small businesses may yield substantial economy-wide...

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon; Weil, David; Storeygard, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We … official data. Lights data also allow for measurement of income growth in sub- and supranational regions. As an application, we … examine growth in Sub Saharan African regions over the last 17 years. We find that real incomes in non-coastal areas have …

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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments

Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular, highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct Investments and is...

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Human Capital and Regional Development

La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions … productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of …

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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy

Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Sarte, Pierre Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

significantly depending on the sectors and regions affected and are importantly determined by the spatial structure of the economy …

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Cities and Ideas

Packalen, Mikko; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Faster technological progress has long been considered a key potential benefit of agglomeration. Physical proximity to others may help inventors adopt new ideas in their work by increasing awareness about which new ideas exist and by enhancing understanding of the properties and usefulness of...

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