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maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors …
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We examine how city size affect wage levels of cities (agglomeration externality) and how it influence surrounding cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and allowing for endogenous and exogenous spatial dependence,...
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How much of the geographic clustering of economic activity is attributable to agglomeration spillovers as opposed to … attenuated, suggesting the presence of important agglomeration spillovers. Over a 50 year horizon, I estimate that at least one … half of the long run effect of pre-1950 dams is due to spillovers. The estimated short and long run effects are highly …
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and ethnic connectivity are particularly important factors for diffusing economic spillovers over longer distances. We …
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This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for them. We argue that municipalities incur expenses to use the grant. If these costs are substantial,...
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We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...
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We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this …
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international spillovers, as increases in government-funded R&D in a particular industry and country raise private R&D in the same …
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Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of … sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined by the firm's output, but also that negative spillovers may arise when … pairs of players who are most complementary in the production process exert the largest positive spillovers on each other …
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