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Living apart together : the economic value of ethnic diversity in cities

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, Henri … - 2018

be valued positively as well as negatively: (i) their presence and contribution to population diversity and (ii) the … well as diversity. We hypothesize that these two mechanisms create a trade-off in which city dwellers want to live apart … the presence of immigrants on house prices. Diversity of immigrant-induced amenities has an additional positive effect on …

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Oligopolistic competition in price and quality

Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2008

We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...

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Diffusion of behavior in network games orchestrated by social learning

Huang, Jiaping; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines - 2013

The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...

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Exploitation and cooperation in networks

Galeotti, Andrea; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2004

A fundamental question in social sciences is how trust emerges. We provide an answer which relies on the formation of social and economic relationships. We argue that behind trust lies the fact that individuals invest in connections taking into account the potential externalities networks...

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Managing pesticide risks for non-target ecosystems with pesticide risk indicators : a multicriteria approach

Travisi, Chiara Maria; Nijkamp, Peter; Vighi, Marco; … - 2004

In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays receiving increasing attention as a complement to more established regulatory strategies. In the present paper, we apply some recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their...

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Modelling R&D and innovation support systems : analysis of regional cluster structures in innovation in Portugal

Noronha, Teresa de; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - 2013

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Two birds with one stone : technology adoption and market participation through protection against crop failure

Zant, Wouter - 2022

Most sub-Sahara African agriculture is rainfed and the key production risk is crop failure due to drought or insufficient rains. Major strategies for households to protect against the risk of crop failure are livestock rearing and storage of home produced food. Next to drought, SSA agriculture...

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Does accessibility to higher education matter? : choice behavior of high school graduates in the Netherlands

Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2004

This paper identifies pivotal factors behind individual decision-making in the transition from high school to post-secondary education in the Netherlands. We apply a multinomial logit framework to individual data on post-secondary education choices. Specifically, our modeling approach...

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Multilevel approaches and the firm-agglomeration ambiguity in economic growth studies

Oort, Frank van; Burger, Martijn J.; Knoben, Joris; … - 2012

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Regional inequality and human capital quality : the impact of technology on the arrival rate of employment offers

Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2013

This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a 'search & matching' framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...

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