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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059029
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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
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The Size Distribution Across All 'Cities' : A Unifying Approach
Giesen, Kristian - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether 'cities' are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110801
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It's All in Marshall : The Impact of External Economies on Regional Dynamics
Audretsch, David B. - 2015
Marshall's student Pigou noted: quot;It's all in Marshall.quot; From a static point of view, this seems rather bold in a constantly changing world. However, this statement becomes more plausible in a dynamic context, where principles are subject to change. Indeed, over time, Marshall's concept...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750329
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953709
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Local Border Reforms and Economic Activity
Egger, Peter H. - 2018
In this paper, we study how local border reforms affect economic activity. To do so, we make use of large-scale municipal merger reforms in Germany to assess the effect of local border changes on the distribution of activity in space, an issue that has not been addressed in existing literature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930606
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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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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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