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'Robin Hook' : The Developmental Effects of Somali Piracy

Shortland, Anja - 2011

Naval counter-piracy measures off Somalia have failed to change the incentives for pirates, raising calls for land-based approaches that may involve replacing piracy as a source of income. This paper evaluates the effects of piracy on the Somali economy to establish which (domestic) groups...

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New Business Formation and Regional Development : A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Fritsch, Michael - 2011

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the effect of new business formation on regional development. After a brief sketch of the origins of research on this issue, the main results of different lines of inquiry are discussed. Main issues are the development of start-up cohorts,...

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Does Quality Make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Fritsch, Michael - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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Are Geese Flying by Themselves Inside China? An LSTR-SEM Approach to Income Convergence of Chinese Counties

Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2011

In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the … spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by … model the estimated convergence rate is 0.8% for unconditional regression and 1.7% for condtional regression, the …

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Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbors Perform Better? A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions

Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2011

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...

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Internet-Based Hedonic Indices of Rents and Prices for Flats : Example of Berlin

Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2012

In this paper, we suggest to estimate the home rents and prices in German regions/cities using the data from Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. Given the richness of information contained in the ads, we are able to construct the quality-adjusted rent and price indices using the...

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Self-Employment and Economic Performance : A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach for European Regions

Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013

The self-employment rate includes entrepreneurs out of opportunity and entrepreneurs out of necessity. While the effect of opportunity entrepreneurs on economic development should be positive, there should be no or a negative effect of necessity entrepreneurship. We use a geographically weighted...

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Communications on Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss with Local Populations : Exploring Best-practices and Postcolonial Moments in Eight Case Studies from across the Globe

Ansari, Dawud; Schönenberg, Regine; Abud, Melissa; … - 2021

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies worldwide, many of which target or impact local communities. Although research, international development, and policy implementation (and, thus, success in fighting both threats) require thoughtful consideration and communication of the...

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Tax and Spending Shocks in the Open Economy : Are the Deficits Twins?

Klein, Mathias - 2019

We present evidence on the open economy consequences of US fiscal policy shocks identified through proxy-instrumental variables. Tax shocks and government spending shocks that raise the government budget deficit lead to persistent current account deficits. In particular, the negative response of...

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Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending : The Great Recession Was (Really) Different

Klein, Mathias - 2018

We estimate the effect of government spending shocks on the US economy with a time-varying parameter vector autoregression. The recent Great Recession period appears to be characterized by uniquely large impulse responses of output to fiscal shocks. Moreover, the particularity of this period is...

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