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This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … regression model with observations of the size and quality of infrastructure and social services in the villages and with … infrastructure and social services in adjacent villages. The results suggest that large-scale private forest plantations can …
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components of a country’s infrastructure to access international markets. I provide a framework to jointly estimate the quality … international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in … are higher than those for roads under the existing Indian infrastructure network, but improvements in ports and roads have …
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Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...
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Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …
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We develop a dynamic stochastic equilibrium model of two locations within a city where heterogeneous households make joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations, we compare the response of this model economy to a...
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-border mobility of inventors within the firm. The inventor team composition has important consequences for how the new knowledge is …
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Not sufficiently harmonised national pension systems within the European Union distort the allocation of labour and endanger redistributive activities. This paper identifies the most decentralised level of harmonisation which guarantees efficient allocation and enables redistribution. For this,...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial … income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by … mobility in the respective region. …
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