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This article proposes an analytical framework regarding the geography of innovation by Dedicated Biotechnology Firms …
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We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with … realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new insights about the dynamic of the geography of knowledge collaborations and … highlights the potential roles in the geography of collaborations of both, the geography of resources and the history of …, in a second part, two complementary econometric tests. Three important results are revealing : the geography of …
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Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates geographic information systems (GIS) skills and imposes new challenges for data collection and analysis. So far,...
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We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
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even without catastrophe. In particular, and contrary to the fundamentally static models of the New Economic Geography …
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There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes …
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How much of China’s recent economic performance can be attributed to market-oriented reforms introduced in the last two decades? A long-run perspective may be important for understanding the process of economic development occurring today. This Paper compares the integration of rice markets in...
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measures of geography within Europe, we show that i) geography explains both genetic distance and transportation costs between … European countries, and ii) genetic distance does not explain economic outcomes once we control for geography. We conclude that …
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