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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 …

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The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Theory and Evidence

Michalopoulos, Stelios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This research examines theoretically and empirically the economic origins of ethnolinguistic diversity. The empirical analysis constructs detailed data on the distribution of land quality and elevation across contiguous regions, virtual and real countries, and shows that variation in elevation...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Wealthiest Is Not Always Healthiest: What Explains Differences in Child Mortality in West Africa?

Ickowitz, Amy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to … geography – best explains Ghana’s mortality advantage. The results of the analysis indicate that wealth variables are not able … to explain any of the child mortality variation between Ghana and its neighbors. Geography and health policy variables …

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Factors behind international relocation and changes in production geography in the European automobile components industry

Lampón, Jesús F.; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector …

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