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Globalization and the empowerment of women: an analysis of spatial dependence via trade and foreign direct investment

Neumayer, Eric; De Soysa, Indra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Previous studies of globalization’s effects on women’s rights have mostly focused on employment and wage ratios, but even if women’s earnings improve, they might suffer greater exploitation at work and at home. Further, these studies use general measures of a country’s openness to trade...

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Regional growth and regional decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the ’hard problem’ of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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City size distributions as a consequence of the growth process

Duranton, Gilles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The size distribution of cities in many countries follows some broadly regular patterns. Any good theory of city size distributions should (i) be able to account for this regularity, but also (ii) rely on a plausible economic mechanism and (iii) be consistent with other fundamental features of...

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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in these two countries, we show that both countries exhibit increasingly strong polarization of innovative capacity in a limited number of urban areas. But the factors behind this...

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Infrastructure and regional growth in the European Union

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what...

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Specialization and regional economic development

Kemeny, Thomas; Storper, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Debates about urban growth and change often center on specialization.However, arguments linking specialization to metropolitan economic development contain diverse, and sometimes conflicting, claims. Is it better to be highly specialized or diversified? Does specialization refer to the absolute...

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Why do regions develop and change?: the challenge for geography and economics

Storper, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for social science. The field of economic geography and associated economics has developed frameworks in recent years that, while tackling major questions in spatial economic development, are deficient in their...

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Great Britain's second-order city regions in recessions, 1978-2010

Champion, Tony; Townsend, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

While it is now accepted that the 2008-09 recession accentuated regional differences in Britain, it is more difficult to identify the role of major cities, especially over a longer time scale. Using previously established methods focussed on employment, this paper assesses the record of nine...

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The impact of the diffusion of a financial innovation on company performance: an analysis of SWIFT adoption

Scott, Susan V.; Zachariadis, Markos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

How does a major financial network innovation influence firm performance? Despite muchspeculation we have little hard quantitative evidence about the impact of technology diffusionin financial services. In this paper we use the entire adoption history for SWIFT (the Societyfor Worldwide...

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Entry, standards and competition : firm strategies and the diffusion of mobile telephony

Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

variables of interest. Our estimation results suggest that standardization accelerates 2G entry and diffusion, although within … second-generation (2G) mobile telecommunication. We consider three dimensions of sector performance: entry time, service … prices and diffusion. We address the question of non-random selection arising from cross-country differences in the timing of …

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