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The crisis and regional resilience in Europe : on the importance of urbanization and specialization
Steven, Brakman; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014 - This version:, March 2014
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 the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in …
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Pandemics, places, and populations : evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977143
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Resilience, supply chains and the great recession
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2017 - This version: May 2017
We analyse the link between supply chains and the extent to which the Great Recession has affected national economies. Our analysis is in two steps, namely first for value added measures of supply chains and then for the Grubel-Lloyd index using gross-export data. Regarding value added measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659477
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TransNIEMO : economic impact analysis using a model of consistent interregional economic and network equilibria
Cho, JoongKoo; Gordon, Peter; Moore, James Elliott; … - 2014
consistent. The simulations show only moderate economic impacts. We ascribe this to the resilience of highway network. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235826
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The evolution of Zipf's law for U.S. cities
Hackmann, Angelina; Klarl, Torben - 2018
Exploiting the cascade structure of cities and based on a dataset for U.S. cities between 1840 and 2016, the aim of this short paper is to answer three important questions: First, do we observe that the U.S. city size distribution exhibits a smooth transition to Zipf's law from the beginning or...
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The political geography of cities
Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
, such as market access, and that the effect is greater in countries where urbanization and industrialization occurred later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652841
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Skilled scalable services : the new urban bias in economic growth
Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - 2020
Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315946
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The skyscraper revolution : global economic development and land savings
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023
Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433980
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Rush hours and urbanization
Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019
We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996174
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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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