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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 …

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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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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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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

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...

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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 …

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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 …

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Spatial Econometric Analysis Of Urban Expansion According To Residential Density Profile In The District Of Tunis

Ayadi, Mohamed; Ben said, Foued - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Urban expansion of the city of Tunis, source of distortion of inter-zones balance between housing supply and employment, does only increase daily mobility and increases pressure on public transportation in terms of traffic, on transportation infrastructure in terms of congestion and on the...

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An Exploratory Note on Interstate Living-Cost Differentials

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985

This exploratory study seeks to identify factors that systematically influence interstate living-cost differentials. Living costs refer to the average cost of living for a four-person family in each of the 50 states. For the year 1977, the living cost level is found to be an increasing function...

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Urbanization as a way of saving our planet from overpopulation

Shcherbakova, Nadezda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper explores whether biological mechanisms, induced by the overpopulation of a territory, exert essential influence on cities' growth, and whether the level of economic development of a country is significant, when biological mechanisms are in operation. To answer these questions, four...

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