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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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Agglomeration, Innovation, and Spatial Reallocation : The Aggregate Effects of R&D Tax Credits
Sollaci, Alexandre - 2022
I investigate the aggregate effects of R&D tax credits in the US. Because it subsidizes R&D activity and because credit rates vary between states, this policy has both spatial and dynamic effects on the economy. To address this issue, I construct an endogenous growth model with spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403383
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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...
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China's Path to Consumer-Based Growth : Reorienting Investment and Enhancing Efficiency
Lee, Il Houng - 2013
This paper proposes a possible framework for identifying excessive investment. Based on this method, it finds evidence that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in inland provinces. In these regions, private consumption has on average become more dependent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082858
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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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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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TransNIEMO : Economic Impact Analysis Using a Model of Consistent Interregional Economic and Network Equilibria
Choo, JoongKoo - 2014
We describe a model that integrates a multi-regional input-output model of the U.S. (50 states and the District of Columbia) with the national highway network. Interstate commodity shipments are placed on a congestible highway network. Simulations of major choke-point disruptions redirect...
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the … US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are “too small” to follow Zipf's law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023107
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Smart Cities are Big Cities -- Comparative Advantage in Chinese Cities
Hu, Shiwei - 2014
The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044595