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Kim, Jun; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2022

This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and their social capital. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social capital. We show that lower travel costs increase not only the interaction...

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Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia

Alfano, Marco; Cornelißen, Thomas - 2022

Due to economic interconnectedness across regions, locally confined violent conflict may have welfare effects far beyond directly affected areas. This paper focuses on Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgency and investigates whether the food transportation network propagates the effects of violent...

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Interdependency in Performance

Haraguchi, Kelii H. - 2007

We empirically model performance in the final round of a multiple-round tournament as a spatially autoregressive process, allowing us to sign and quantify the endogenous interactions between competitors. Doing so speaks to significant regularities in the data that suggest that a player's own...

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Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2013

. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly … ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state … religion. The "New Paradigm" views separation of Church and State, leading to competition in the religious marketplace, as …

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Spatial Frictions

Behrens, Kristian - 2013

toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends …

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Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2009

This paper compares various forecasts using panel data with spatial error correlation. The true data generating process is assumed to be a simple error component regression model with spatial remainder disturbances of the autoregressive or moving average type. The best linear unbiased predictor...

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No Place Like Home : Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science

Winters, John V. - 2022

Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education and migration experiences and then more generally discuss sense of belonging as a friction to...

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Un Interventions : The Role of Geography

Duque, Juan C. - 2014

This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...

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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending : Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald - 2006

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input …

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What's the Risk from Competing? Competition Aversion and the Gender Wage Gap

Choe, Chung; Jung, Seeun; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2022

competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender … each period. The gender wage gap contribution of gender differences in competition aversion compared with the contribution …

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