This study investigates whether accessibility shapes the attractiveness of residential land as predicted by theory. A … gravity-based accessibility indicator is employed that incorporates the effective distribution of employment as well as the … general urban attraction effect. After controlling for accessibility, we find a negative effect of urban attraction …

political institutions weight matrix best explains the institutional distance concept since it produces identical results to the … route of institutions spillover where institutions in a country lead to economic improvement in that country and generate …

Do institutions spatially affect growth? By employing a neoclassical growth model with institutional controls and … augmenting the model with a formal spatial framework, this study finds evidence that institutions has spatial spillover effect on …

highlighted in literature: institutions and geography. However, it remains controversial as to which of these two is the more … important. The “Institutions school” assigns primal importance to institutions, whereas the “Geography school” considers … their hypotheses. It concludes in favour of the Institutions hypothesis as the Geography school does not provide a …

This paper analyzes the cyclical behavior of production and unemployment at regional level, using Chilean quarterly … performance of regional unemployment using auto regressive components (in the form of polynomial distributed lags), and related … unemployment cyclical behavior for quarters 2006:Q1 and 2006:Q4. The results suggests a notorious unemployment reduction in regions …