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Climate change and migration : the case of Africa

Conte, Bruno - 2022

This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural …, by the end of the century, reduces SSA real GDP per capita by 1.8 percent and displaces 4 million individuals. Migration …

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Endogenous spatial production networks : quantitative implications for trade and productivity

Panigrahi, Piyush - 2021

Larger Indian firms selling inputs to other firms tend to have more customers, tend to be used more intensively by their customers, and tend to have larger customers. Motivated by these regularities, I propose a novel empirical model of trade featuring endogenous formation of input-output...

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Home market effects and the single-sector Melitz model

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin - 2011

Increasing-returns-to-scale imperfect competition trade models predict a more than proportionate relationship between the larger country's share in world endowments and its share in producing firms: the so called home market effect (HME). While this result plays a key role in empirical testing,...

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Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2012

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm … economic activity. -- firm heterogeneity ; agglomeration ; technological change ; trade ; labor mobility …

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A spatial approach to energy economics : theory, measurement and empirics

Moreno Cruz, Juan; Taylor, Michael Scott - 2014

This paper sets out a simple spatial model of energy exploitation to ask how the location and productivity of energy resources may affect the distribution of economic activity around the globe. We combine elements from resource and energy economics into one framework linking the spatial...

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The persistent effects of place-based policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2015 - This version: May 2015

spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to control for all spatially-continuous determinants of agglomeration (e …

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The political geography of cities

Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We study the link between subnational capital cities and urban development using a global data set of hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018. We show that gaining subnational capital status has a sizable effect on city growth in the medium run. We...

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Market access and the arrow of time

Klein, Marius; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2023

We revisit the natural experiments of division and unification of Germany now that more time has passed and more data have become available. We show that local market access shocks are not symmetric in time. The negative shock to local market access following the division of Germany lead to a...

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High-skilled migration and agglomeration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …

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Economic geography within and between European nations : the role of market potential and density across space and time

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2009

In explaining the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, urban economics and new economic geography (NEG) dominate recent research in economics. A main difference between these two approaches is that NEG stresses the role of spatial linkages whereas urban economics does not do so. We...

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