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Two Blades of Grass : The Impact of the Green Revolution
Gollin, Douglas - 2018
We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time variation in the development and diffusion of HYVs of 10 major crops, spatial variation in agro-climatically suitability for growing them, and a differences-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916176
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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics
Moreno Cruz, Juan Bernardo - 2014
We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064302
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Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography
Kim, Sukkoo; Margo, Robert A. - 2021
between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238931
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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture
Baldos, Uris - 2018
agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915233
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Geography and Economic Development
Gallup, John Luke; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Mellinger, Andrew D. - 2021
This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238940
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Long-Range Growth : Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links
Campante, Filipe R. - 2016
We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982932
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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016
characteristics into two groups, those primarily important for agriculture and those primarily important for trade, we find that the … agriculture variables have relatively more explanatory power in countries that developed early and the trade variables have … agriculture today. We explain this apparent puzzle in a model in which two technological shocks occur, one increasing agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994896
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129186
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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
Branstetter, Lee - 2014
This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070725
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Financial Development and the Composition of Industrial Growth
Fisman, Raymond J.; Love, Inessa - 2021
We re-examine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. Specifically, we propose the use of a new methodology that looks at the co-movement in growth rates across pairs of countries to examine the role of financial development in allowing firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242889