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Uncertainty in Spatial Duopoly with Possibly Asymmetric Distributions: a State Space Approach

Meagher, Kieron J.; Zauner, Klaus G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

locations should be allowed to vary over states and need not be uniform. However, the existing literature models location …

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Regional Convergence Clusters Across Europe

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Per capita incomes across European regions are not equal and do not stay constant; regional income distributions fluctuate over time. Such a process could have many possible limiting outcomes: complete equality (convergence), stratification, and continually increasing inequality are but three...

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Who Decides about Change and Restructuring in Organizations?

Meagher, Kieron; Wait, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We model the determinants of who makes decisions, the principal or an agent, when there are multiple decisions. Decision making takes effort and time; and, once implemented, the expected loss from a particular decision (or project) increases with the length of time since the last decision was...

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Networks of Relations and Social Capital

Lippert, Steffen; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We model networks of relational (or implicit) contracts, exploring how sanctioning power and equilibrium conditions change under different network configurations and information transmission technologies. In our model relations are the links, and the value of the network lies in its ability to...

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China’s Decentralized Privatization and Change of Control Rights

Gan, Jie; Guo, Yan; Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

A distinct feature of China’s privatization is that both its design and its implementation are highly decentralized and are administered by the local governments. Based on a survey of 3,000 firms in over 100 Chinese cities, this paper studies how city governments choose among various...

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Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life-Cycle of Products

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Why are some cities specialized and others diversified? What are the advantages and disadvantages of urban specialization and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of firms and people in them, change over time? How does the sectoral composition of cities...

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Urbanization Externalities, Market Potential and Spatial Sorting of Skills and Firms

Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

size and workers' skills is not simply the outcome of a co-location phenomenon. …

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Transport Cost Decline and Regional Inequalities: Evidence from France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper first develops a tractable economic geography model we use to investigate the decline of transport costs as a cause of regional inequalities. Next, we perform a structural estimation of this model using a new dataset on road transport costs between the 341 French Employment Areas. We...

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Diversity and Specialization in Cities: Why, Where and When Does It Matter?

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

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University Spillovers: Strategic Location and New Firm Performance

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik E; Warning, Susanne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This study examines the impact of location choice as a firm strategy to access knowledge spillovers from universities … that not only geographic proximity to the university matters, but also that the degree to which location choice matters is … shaped by the field and type of knowledge spillover. The role of geographic proximity as a location strategy is more …

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