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Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China's economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274934
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Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
Bluhm, Richard - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831662
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Urbanization, productivity differences and spatial frictions
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2019
We study decentralized and optimal urbanization in a simple multi-sector model of a rural-urban economy focusing on productivity differences and internal trade frictions. We show that even in the absence of the typical externalities studied in the literature, such as agglomeration, congestion or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018300
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The IOC's Midas Touch: Summer Olympics and City Growth
Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013
Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319384
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Top Lights - Bright Cities and their Contribution to Economic Development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018102
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It's all in Marshall: the impact of external economies on regional dynamics
Audretsch, David B.; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Marshall's student Pigou noted: It's all in Marshall. From a static point of view, this seems rather bold in a constantly changing world. However, this statement becomes more plausible in a dynamic context, where principles are subject to change. Indeed, over time, Marshall's concept of external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264206
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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: location of start-ups relative to incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264509
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Application of regionally varying additionality degrees in the practice of EU cohesion policy
Nam, Chang Woon; Wamser, Georg - 2010
The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266079
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Lisbon agenda, regional innovation system and the new EU cohesion policy
Woon Nam, Chang; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - 2011
The EU's cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277398
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The Impact of China's "Stadium Diplomacy" on Local Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Valentin, Lindlacher; Pirich, Gustav - 2024
This study investigates the economic impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Exploiting the … widely held notion that China's development finance projects constitute "white elephants". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534428