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Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?

Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

important type of behaviour: individuals’ participation in their local area through walking and physical activity. We use a … walking and other physical activity we control for individual-level characteristics, non-time varying local authority effects … walking, pointing to important effects of violent crime on non-victims. The adverse effect of an increase in local area …

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Market Potential and Development

Mayer, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper provides evidence on the long-term impact of market potential on economic development. It derives from the New Economic Geography literature a structural estimation where the level of factors' income of a country is related to its export capacity, labelled Market Access (MA) by...

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The Intranational Business Cycle: Evidence from Japan

Artis, Michael J; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Abstract: This paper studies the intranational business cycle - that is the set of regional (prefecture) business cycles - in Japan. One reason for choosing to examine the Japanese case is that long time series and relatively detailed data are available. A Hodrick-Prescott filter is applied to...

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Testing the Home Market Effect in a Multi-Country World: The Theory

Behrens, Kristian; Lamorgese, Andrea; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We extend the model by Krugman (1980) to a multi-country set-up and show that the ‘home-market effect’ highlighted with two countries does not readily extend to such a general setting. In particular, we prove that the most important result, namely the disproportionate causation from demand...

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