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Adding Geography to the New Economic Geography

Bosker, Erik Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2021

For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way: attention is either confined to a simple 2-region or to an equidistant multi-region world. As a result, the main predictions regarding the impact of e.g. diminishing trade costs are...

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Productivity, Place, and Plants : Revisiting the Measurement

Schoefer, Benjamin; Ziv, Oren - 2021

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size, combined with finite plant counts. As a result, economies...

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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?

Massetti, Emanuele - 2019

agriculture is likely to be smooth …

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Measuring the Immeasurable : The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019

Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021

This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …

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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe

Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023

The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...

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Polarization in Parliamentary Speach

Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda; Øien, Henning - 2021

We study political polarization in a parliamentary setting dominated by strong parties. In addition to examining polarization along the left-right dimension, we consider political divergence between legislators belonging to the same political bloc. Are politicians’ background characteristics...

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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy

Apps, Patricia - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...

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Creativity Over Time and Space - a Historical Analysis of European Cities

Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2021

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...

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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China

Heblich, Stephan - 2019

This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the long-run...

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The Rise (and Fall) of Tech Clusters

Kichko, Sergey - 2020

Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities...

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