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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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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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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021
The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...
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Profit-Sharing Rules and the Taxation of Multinational Internet Platforms
Bloch, Francis - 2019
This paper analyzes taxation of an Internet platform attracting users from different jurisdictions. When corporate …
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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...
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Trade Liberalization Along the Firm Size Distribution : The Case of the EU-South Korea FTA
Chowdhry, Sonali; Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2021
How do firms of different sizes react to trade liberalization? Leading theories suggest that, amongst continuing exporters, lower trade costs should boost exports of smaller firms by the same or a greater rate than those of larger firms. However, studying the entry into force of the ambitious...
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Jesus Speaks Korean : Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea
Becker, Sascha O.; Won, Cheongyeon - 2021
In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which Christian missionaries entered the country and contributed to...
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Investors' Trading Behaviour and Stock Market Volatility During Crisis Periods : A Dual Long-Memory Model for the Korean Stock Exchange
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020
This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis events, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the 2008 global financial crash. We investigate the trading behaviour of domestic vs. foreign and institutional vs. individual investors. Our...
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Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe
Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido; Tesei, Andrea - 2022
We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral … outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile … Internet increased voters’ support for right-wing populist parties and for parties running on extreme socially conservative …
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Migration between Platforms
Biglaiser, Gary - 2020
We study incumbency advantage in markets with positive consumption externalities. Users of an incumbent platform receive stochastic opportunities to migrate to an entrant. They can accept a migration opportunity or wait for a future opportunity. In some circumstances, users have incentives to...
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