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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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The Trade Creation Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from the Remarkable Case of Spain
Peri, Giovanni; Requena, Francisco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
There is abundant evidence that immigrant networks are associated with larger exports from the country where they settle to their countries of origin. The direction of causality of this association is less clearly established. Also, we do not know to what extent these increased exports are due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634668
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The Effect of Trade and Migration on Income
Peri, Giovanni; Ortega, Francesc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade and to immigration on income per person. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumental-variables strategy first used by Frankel and Romer (1999). We show that distance (geographical and cultural) can be used to build a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276442
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Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.
Richardson, Gary; McBride, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated populations and the church promoted the doctrine of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720575
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Book Translations as Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge
Abramitzky, Ran; Sin, Isabelle - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations and difference-in-differences approaches, we show that while translations between Communist languages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207428
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The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones
Hsiang, Solomon M.; Jina, Amir S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-to-year variation in cyclone strikes to identify the causal effect of environmental disasters on long-run growth. We compare each … country's growth rate to itself in the years immediately before and after exposure, accounting for the distribution of … cyclones in preceding years. The data reject hypotheses that disasters stimulate growth or that short-run losses disappear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821718
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Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture
Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances...
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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089073
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Spatial Development
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth theory that can shed light on the link between the evolution of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027078
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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000
Redding, Stephen James; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using 3,000 verbs from around 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro-data from the United States from 1880-2000, we find an increase in the employment share...
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