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Trade liberalisation and global-scale forest transition
González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
worldwide level, in a trade liberalisation scenario. Our model has economic geography foundations: transport costs affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647371
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PRIO-GRID: A unified spatial data structure
Tollefsen, Andreas Forø; Strand, Håvard; Buhaug, Halvard - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 2, pp. 363-374
Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates geographic information systems (GIS) skills and imposes new challenges for data collection and analysis. So far,...
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Cross-National Comparison of Internal Migration
Bell, Martin; Muhidin, Salut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
collection, in geography and in measurement intervals seriously hinder rigorous cross-national comparisons. We supplement data … Courgeau's k (Courgeau 1973) provides a powerful mechanism to transcend differences in statistical geography. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559059
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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations
Bluedorn, John C.; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472253
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Organizational legacies of violence
Daly, Sarah Zukerman - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 3, pp. 473-491
reorientation away from physical geography and back to the human and social geography that determines if rebellion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010793042
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First Nature vs. Second Nature Causes: Industry Location and Growth in the Presence of an Open-Access Renewable Resource
González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we present a model integrating characteristics of the New Economic Geography, the theory of endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574619
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New facts for old debates: Farm size and productivity in US agriculture
Temel, Tugrul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in U.S. agriculture during 1982-92. A nonparametric regression method is applied to detect ex-post geographical patterns in changes in farm size and productivity. The estimations show that (i) in 1982 productivity per acre...
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Geography, Institutions and Human Development: A Cross-Country Investigation Using Bayesian Model Averaging
Malik, Sadia Mariam; Janjua, Yasin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the role of long standing institutions – identified through geography, disease ecology, colonial … institutions. Some of the other measures of climate and geography as well as those of colonial legacy are important as long as we … spending on health and education; fertility rates; and measures of health infrastructure, the importance of geography and …
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Family Firms and Regional Innovation Activity: Evidence from the German Mittelstand
Block, Joern; Spiegel, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Family firms are important not only for a region but for the economy as a whole. In particular, the long-term orientation and the local embeddedness of family firms suggest a positive effect on regional innovation activity. Yet, despite the widely acknowledged importance of family firms for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836745
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‘Capital punishment’
Butcher, Charles - In: Journal of Peace Research 52 (2015) 2, pp. 171-186
Civil wars show substantial variation in where they are fought. One dimension of this variation is the proximity of fighting to the capital city. While some wars are fought in the periphery, others devastate capital cities, often for months, or years, on end. What explains this? This article...
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