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Creativity over Time and Space - A Historical Analysis of European Cities

Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 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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Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era

Alfaro, Laura; Bao, Cathy; Chen, Maggie X.; Hong, Junjie; … - 2022

We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923—an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...

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Marketmaking Middlemen

Gautier, Pieter A.; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode by which an intermediary holds inventories...

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How low business tax rates attract multinational headquarters: municipality-level evidence from Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria - 2009

,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …

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Globalization and the rise of mega-cities in the developing world

van der Ploeg, Frederick; Poelhekke, Steven - 2008

Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical specialization. Second, we argue that Friedman pays...

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Internal Migration, Remittances and Economic Development

Pan, Xiameng; Sun, Chang - 2023

We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated...

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The Economic Consequences of Fiscal Rules

Potrafke, Niklas - 2023

Fiscal rules are controversial. They mitigate politicians' flexibility in responding to shocks and pursuing expansionary fiscal policy. They help, however, to handle politicians' commitment problem in fiscal policies. I portray the new and fast growing empirical literature in public economics...

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

Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2021

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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Kotsadam, Andreas; Villanger, Espen - 2020

We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase formal employment, earnings, and earnings shares within couples in the short and...

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Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Barza, Radu; Jara-Figueroa, Cristian; Hidalgo, César A.; … - 2020

. Together, these findings suggest that competition for skilled labor in knowledge intense industries contributes to the … entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of …, and that the effect of knowledge intensity is stronger when the demand for skilled labor is high and the supply of skilled …

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