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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...
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Pandemics, places, and populations: evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018215
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Pandemics, Places, and Populations : Evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891571
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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data
Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana - 2015
dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000-12 period; across this period, 2008 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500418
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Import Competition and U.S. Sentiment Toward China
Arezki, Rabah; Le, Duong Trung; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Hieu - 2024
We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to...
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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth: Evidence from the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022
We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470267
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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth : Evidence from the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022
We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243162
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Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, … - 2019
favoritism in the allocation of Chinese aid towards the home regions of recipient country leaders reduce its effectiveness. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052845
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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276225
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Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism
Bomprezzi, Pietro; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; … - 2024
development aid projects (including new data on 19 Western donors), we examine whether those regions within recipient countries … 1990–2020 period suggest that regions including the birthplaces of political leaders' spouses receive substantially more … aid from European donors, the United States, and China. We find that more aid goes to spousal regions prior to elections …
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