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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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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Cities and Ideas

Packalen, Mikko; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Faster technological progress has long been considered a key potential benefit of agglomeration. Physical proximity to others may help inventors adopt new ideas in their work by increasing awareness about which new ideas exist and by enhancing understanding of the properties and usefulness of...

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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Redding, Stephen James; Sturm, Daniel M.; Ahlfeldt, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces and an arbitrary number of heterogeneous city blocks. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which...

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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...

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