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Geography, population density, and per-capita income gaps across US states and Canadian provinces
Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter; Basher, Syed A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
. Geography determined where Europeans originally settled: in Northeastern USA, along those segments of the Atlantic coast where … the climate was neither too hot (the US South), nor too cold (Canada). Higher population densities in this early settled … density in 1900; and some where different sets of geography variables (e.g. temperature) are used as instruments. Our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620089
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108756
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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
relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159354
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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017
The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118027
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A Model of Quantum Economic Development
Sobey, Craig - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
explain how these systems could work for a global society of up to one hundred billion market participants. Light speed and … simultaneously the pre-engineering of the light speed evolution of ideas to their commercial manifestation. As we now learn from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647310
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The relationship between people’s attitude and willingness to pay for river conservation
Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
the Pinios River in the eastern part of Central Greece. Respondents’ behavior was explored by measuring and comparing use … high associations between WTP of individuals towards river protection in relation to their characteristics (like education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258332
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A Living Cost Index for SMSAs
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985
A number of recent studies have been concerned with the determinants of either housing cost differentials or overall living cost differentials among SMSAs. Given the obvious significance of such differentials, the purpose of this research note is to develop a geographically comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260279
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Positive externalities of congestion, human capital, and socio-economic factors: A case study of chronic illness in Japan.
yamamura, eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper explores, using Japanese panel data for the years 1988-2002, how externalities from congestion and human capital influence deaths caused by chronic illnesses. Major findings through fixed effects 2SLS estimation were as follows: (1) the number of deaths were smaller in more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835388
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Empirical Evidence of Population Concentration in Spain, 1900-2001
Goerlich, Francisco José; Mas, Matilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This short paper examines the evolution of the population density in Spain during the 20th century. Using a homogeneous database of the population at a municipal level – elaborated from the eleven censuses carried out between 1900 and 2001– the paper looks at the general characteristics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055521