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Innovation and Regional Growth in Mexico: 2000-2010
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Peralta, Edna MaríaVillarreal - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014
This paper looks at the factors driving regional growth in Mexico, paying special attention to the potentially growth-enhancing role of innovation and innovation policy. The analysis combines innovation variables with indicators linked to the formation of adequate social conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901466
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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe : On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization
Brakman, Steven - 2015
Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033744
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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities:Evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861364
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Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China's Economic Geography
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135264
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A Spatial Perspective on European Integration : Heterogeneous Welfare and Migration Effects from the Single Market and the Brexit
Henkel, Marcel - 2017
of trade barriers in Europe has led to a more homogeneous spatial distribution of economic activity. With regard to the … Brexit, we find moderate welfare losses for the UK of -0.44 percent in the most pessimistic scenario while continental Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963382
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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence : 1995–2010
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076152
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Resilience, Supply Chains and the Great Recession
Brakman, Steven - 2017
using gross-export data. Regarding value added measures we find, in general, no effect. Only if we separate out Europe do we … find that the trough in Europe occurs about 0.17 years later and the recovery (for the countries that have recovered) about … 1.55 years later. Moreover, the duration of the decline in Europe is about 4 months longer and of the recovery about 17 …
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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China
Du, Rui - 2018
Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906519
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On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap
Eder, Christoph - 2019
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894541
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Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth
Maré, David C. - 2019
We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment shares, and use this measure to estimate city and activity complexity. Our approach extends discrete measures used in previous studies by recognising the extent of activities'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870257