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Specialization: Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James; Yotov, Yoto V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531881
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Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy
Allen, Treb; Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We develop a versatile general equilibrium framework to determine the spatial distribution of economic activity on any surface with (nearly) any geography. Combining the gravity structure of trade with labor mobility, we provide conditions for the existence, uniqueness, and stability of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821985
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Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income: Estimating the Interrelationships
Rigobon, Roberto; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
We estimate the interrelationships among economic institutions, political institutions, openness, and income levels, using identification through heteroskedasticity (IH). We split our cross-national dataset into two sub-samples: (i) colonies versus non-colonies; and (ii) continents aligned on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019415
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Once Again, is Openness Good for Growth?
Ricci, Luca Antonio; Rigobon, Roberto; Lee, Ha Yan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Rodriguez and Rodrik (2000) argue that the relation between openness and growth is still an open question. One of the main problems in the assessment of the effect is the endogeneity of the relation. In order to address this issue, this paper applies the identification through heteroskedasticity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575322
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Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa
Robinson, James Alan; Chaves, Isaías N.; Engerman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the great puzzles of Sub-Saharan African economic history is that wheeled transportation was barely used prior … to the colonial period. Instead, head porterage was the main method of transportation. The consensus among historians is … systematic investigation of the relative costs of the different forms of wheeled transportation in Africa. We focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969217
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Evidence of a Shift in the Short-Run Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand
Knittel, Christopher R.; Hughes, Jonathan E.; Sperling, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
differ from these previous periods, as transportation analysts have hypothesized that behavioral and structural factors over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775164
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Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness
Levitt, Steven; Porter, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
Measurement of seat belt and air bag effectiveness is complicated by the fact that systematic data are collected only for crashes in which a fatality occurs. These data suffer from sample selection since seat belt and air bag usage influences survival rates which in turn determine whether a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778389
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Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity
Redding, Stephen James; Turner, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multi-region model of economic geography that we use to understand the … general equilibrium implications of transportation infrastructure improvements within and between locations for wages … effects of transportation infrastructure improvements on economic development, paying particular attention to the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821689
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Valuing Incremental Highway Capacity in a Network
Smith, V. Kerry; Klaiber, H. Allen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The importance of increments to an existing highway system depends upon their contributions to the accessibility provided by the existing network. Nearly 40 years ago, Mohring [1965] suggested this logic for planning optimal highway investment programs. He argued it could be implemented by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615805
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The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Burgess, Robin; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Jedwab, Remi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969355