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Digital Urban Network Connectivity: Global and Chinese Internet Patterns

Tranos, Emmanouil; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper led to an article in Papers in Regional Science (2014). Volume 93, Issue 2(SI). The majority of cities in our world is not only connected through conventional physical infrastructure, but increasingly through modern digital infrastructure. This paper aims to test whether...

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Defining European Wholesale Electricity Markets: An “And/Or” Approach

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Janssen, Maarten C.W. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

An important question in the dynamic European wholesale markets for electricity is whether to define the geographical market at the level of an individual member state or more broadly. We show that if we currently take the traditional approach by considering for each member state whether there...

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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...

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In Search of Creative Champions in High-Tech Spaces

Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

The business performance of firms in the creative high-tech sector shows much variation. This paper examines whether the geographical location of such business firms influences the performance of these firms. The overarching analysis framework of this paper emerges from the recently developed...

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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

See also the article 'The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Meta-analytic evidence' in Papers in … that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable … self-reinforcing growth rather than neoclassical convergence. However, studies that use panel models or IV estimation yield …

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The Effectiveness of Dutch Municipal Recycling Policies

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and nearly no municipalities have a rate above 70%. Given...

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