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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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EU Cohesion Policy on the Ground: Analyzing Small-Scale Effects Using Satellite Data

Bachtrögler-Unger, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022

We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...

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The Economic Costs of Trade Sanctions: Evidence from North Korea

Kim, Jihee; Kim, Kyoochul; Park, Sangyoon; Sun, Chang - 2023

This paper investigates the economic costs of the recent United Nations sanctions on North Korea. Exploiting a novel data set on North Korean firms, we construct measures of regional exposure to export and intermediate input sanctions and show that trade sanctions cause sharp declines in local...

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The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023

Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average elasticities of city population and built area to aggregate city building heights of 0.12 and -0.17, respectively, indicating that the largest global cities in developing...

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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". …

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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...

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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...

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