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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950694
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087493
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575616
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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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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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Agglomeration: A Dynamic Approach
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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What Drives Aggregate Investment?
Bachmann, Rüdiger; Zorn, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using firm-level survey data for the West German manufacturing sector, this paper revisits the technology-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to gauge their contribution to short-run investment...
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Exploring Reallocation's Apparent Weak Contribution to Growth
Nishida, Mitsukuni; Petrin, Amil; Polanec, Sašo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Two recent meta-analyses use variants of the Baily, Hulten, and Campbell (1992) (BHC) decompositions to ask whether recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input reallocation. They find weak gains from measured...
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