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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical geographically-based measures, such as distance or length of shared areal unit boundaries. In general, proximity and openness tend to favour a similar economic performance among...

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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...

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The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Italy

Dominicis, Laura de; Arbia, Giuseppe; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Existing indices measuring the spatial distribution of economic activity such as the Krugman Specialisation Index, the Hirschmann-Herfindahl index and the Ellison-Glaeser index typically do not take into account the spatial structure of the data. In this paper, we first consider traditional...

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Misspecification in Linear Spatial Regression Models

Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Spatial effects are endemic in models based on spatially referenced data. The increased awareness of the relevance of spatial interactions, spatial externalities and networking effects among actors, evoked the area of spatial econometrics. Spatial econometrics focuses on the specification and...

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Geographical Distribution of Unemployment: An Analysis of Provincial Differences in Italy

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment disparities of Italian provinces. On the basis of findings...

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Stone Age Equilibrium

Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the … importance of free disposal of goods which allows for excess holdings larger than consumption, thereby modelling the power to …

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A K-sample Homogeneity Test based on the Quantification of the p-p Plot

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Wagenvoort, Rien; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

can have better power than alternative Empirical Distribution Function tests. …

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Positional Power in Hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in … hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to … the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority …

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Measuring Power And Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: Dictator and Opinion Leader Properties

Brink, René van den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

one of the actions. By definition opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they exercise this power by … satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …

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Axiomatizations of a Positional Power Score and Measure for Hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the …-established approaches for the analysis of power in non-hierarchical organizations such as the Banzhaf measure; and thus they are all based …

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