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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 Instituut - 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 Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in a chapter in (P. Nijkamp, J. Poot, M. Sahin (Eds.)) Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons, 2012 (KNAW sponsored). The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas,...

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The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Italy

Dominicis, Laura de; Arbia, Giuseppe; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Geographical Distribution of Unemployment: An Analysis of Provincial Differences in Italy

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Misspecification in Linear Spatial Regression Models

Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Pareto Efficiency in the Jungle

Houba, Harold; Luttens, Roland Iwan; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We include initial holdings in the jungle economy of Piccione and Rubinstein (Economic Journal, 2007) in which the unique equilibrium satisfies lexicographic welfare maximization. When we relax assumptions on consumption sets and preferences slightly, equilibria other than lexicographic welfare...

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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 Instituut - 2008

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

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Stone Age Equilibrium

Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper led to a chapter in .Voting Power and Procedures: Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé … mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is prevailing in the voting power literature. We demonstrate that … is predominant in the voting power literature. However, we provide two examples of sequential decision-making mechanisms …

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Axiomatizations of a Positional Power Score and Measure for Hierarchies

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

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Public Choice', 151, 757-787. 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 actors. While such an analysis …

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