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The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate economic output, in particular, the welfare of the very...
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later movers to condition choice of location on earlier movers’ locations. When this occurs, firms sometimes find it … facilitates normative analysis of imitation in location choice by explicitly quantifying losses in aggregate efficiency following …
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The siting of public facilities, such as prisons, airports or incinerators for hazardous waste typically faces social rejection by local populations (the "NIMBY" syndrome, for Not In My BackYard). These public goods exhibit a private bad aspect which creates an asymmetry: all involved...
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Lamentations on societal and environmental developments become increasingly audible in our times. Currently, we can hear almost every day about reaching the balance in a very sensitive triangle economic sustainability-social sustainability-environmental sustainability. It is largely omitted that...
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present study documents the regional impact of ICT by mapping the location of the ICT industry in the EU25, analysing the … ICT business location and, finally, assessing the contribution of ICT investment to regional growth and convergence. The …. These factors also seem to explain much of the recent trends in ICT multinationals firms' location over the past decade. The …
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The paper reports an attempt to estimate the determinants of entry in Greek manufacturing industry in the 1984-87 period and to identify the differences between locatio nal entry preferences. Entry in Athens is found to be hesitant with respect to factors such as profitability and increased...
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I am unable to copy/paste a rather lengthy abstract, but the paper provides a detailed theoretical model of human migration which is then tested using a discrete choice probit model.
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While unable to copy/paste the abstract, the paper discusses the importance of regionally-varying amenities to migration and regional development.
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While unable to copy/paste the abstract, the paper argues that regional differentials in wages and rents are overwhelmingly of an equilibrium nature, with disequilibrium forces having little systematic influence
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This research develops a model of optimal locations for Major League Soccer teams and investigates the important underlying factors.
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