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We Can Work it Out - the Globalisation of Ict-Enabled Services
van Welsum, Desiree - 2010
and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However … investment, and the relative size of the services sector all have a positive association with the share of potentially …
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Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services : From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI
Markusen, James R. - 2021
-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely fresh approach? I try to identifying some of the important aspects of this … offshoring of white-collar services to occur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231442
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Regional Adjustment to Trade Liberalization
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2011
In this paper, I study the effect of economic integration with the United States on state-industry employment growth in Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all else equal, encourage firms to relocate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124909
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On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming
Desmet, Klaus - 2012
We propose a dynamic spatial theory to analyze the geographic impact of climate change. Agricultural and manufacturing firms locate on a hemisphere. Trade across locations is costly, firms innovate, and technology diffuses over space. Energy used in production leads to emissions that contribute...
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Rethinking Detroit
Owens, Raymond E. - 2017
We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city's current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant neighborhoods. We propose a model with residential...
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Unitization of Spatially Connected Renewable Resources
Kaffine, Daniel - 2015
Spatial connectivity of renewable resources induces a spatial externality in extraction. We explore the consequences of decentralized spatial property rights in the presence of spatial externalities. We generalize the notion of unitization - developed to enhance cooperative extraction of oil and...
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Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives
Slattery, Cailin - 2020
This essay describes and evaluates state and local business tax incentives in the United States. In 2014, states spent between $5 and $216 per capita on incentives for firms in the form of firm-specific subsidies and general tax credits, which mostly target investment, job creation, and research...
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Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium
Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2017
We study optimal transport networks in spatial equilibrium. We develop a framework consisting of a neoclassical trade model with labor mobility in which locations are arranged on a graph. Goods must be shipped through linked locations, and transport costs depend on congestion and on the...
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Diverging Trends in National and Local Concentration
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2018
The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond or the Federal Reserve System. We thank Eric LaRose and Sara Ho for outstanding research assistance.Using U.S. NETS data, we present evidence that the positive...
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Social Connectedness in Urban Areas
Bailey, Michael - 2019
We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to explore the spatial structure of social networks in the New York metro area. We highlight the importance of transportation infrastructure in shaping urban social networks by showing that travel time and travel costs are substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867065