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Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry

Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013

This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...

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Economic Philosophy of Khewa Gul, an Unknown Tribal Economist of 18th Century

Gul, Ejaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

map created by Khewa Gul in 18th Century to ascertain whether the map produced by him in 18th Century is correct and valid … in 21st Century or not. The area represented in the map is located in Naryab, Pakistan. A detailed research methodology … geotechnical suitability map was prepared for the study area. Similarly, basing on tangible factors like cost of material, soil …

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Does Economic Integration Affect Spatial Concentration of Industries? Theory and a Case Study for India

Saikia, Dilip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Notwithstanding there has been voluminous concern among the researchers and policymakers, the theoretical predictions and empirical evidences regarding the impact of economic integration on spatial concentration of industries are ambiguous. The paper critically reviews the theoretical and...

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Recent trends in economic theory – implications for development geography

Reinert, Erik S.; Riiser, Vemund - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Development geography and mainstream economic theory have for many years lived separate lives. Especially so since the downfall of development economics, an academic subject which has repeatedly been pronounced dead by one of today’s leading US economists. The geographical dimension - the...

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Research Clusters and Technology Diffusion

Deng, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Much of the debate over income convergence hinges on whether technology diffusion is “global” or “local”. In this paper, I address this question in a developing country setting and focus on the role of major research clusters in promoting domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de...

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Productive Public Expenditure in a New Economic Geography Model

Commendatore, Pasquale; Kubin, Ingrid; Petraglia, Carmelo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We assess whether and how differences in productive public expenditure impacts on industrial location. Since productive public expenditure and taxation affect in opposite direction industrial location, it is not straightforward that following an increase in productive public expenditure in a...

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The Spatial and Public Economics of Regions, a Theoretical and Empirical Survey

Candau, Fabien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The aim of this paper is to survey what has been done by the New Economic Geography (NEG) on a regional scale in order to answer the three following questions: what are the predictions of the NEG concerning the future of regions in the triad? Are these predictions robust? What can be the optimal...

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Corporate competition: A self-organized network

Braha, Dan; Stacey, Blake; Bar-Yam, Yaneer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A substantial number of studies have extended the work on universal properties in physical systems to complex networks in social, biological, and technological systems. In this paper, we present a complex networks perspective on interfirm organizational networks by mapping, analyzing and...

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Where russians should live: a counterfactual alternative to Soviet location policy

Mikhailova, Tatiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper investigates the extent of distortions in Russia's spatial economy that are inherited from the Soviet system. Using Canada as a benchmark for spatial dynamics of economic activity in a market economy, I construct the spatial allocation of population that would result in Russia, given...

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Defying Gravity: The Substitutability of Transportation in International Trade

Lux, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

What role do individual modes of transportation play in international trade? To study this question, I develop a model of international trade that incorporates a role for transportation and thus allows me to study mode-specific trade flows. I use a novel data set to estimate the complete model...

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