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Krusell, Per; Smith, Anthony A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The economic effects of climate change vary across both time and space. To study these effects, this paper builds a global economy-climate model featuring a high degree of geographic resolution. Carbon emissions from the use of energy in production increase the Earth's (average) temperature and...

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The Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy

Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and vegetation cover. We discuss critical issues...

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Boundary Discontinuity Methods and Policy Spillovers

Jardim, Ekaterina S.; Long, Mark C.; Plotnick, Robert D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The boundary discontinuity method of causal inference may yield misleading results if a policy's impacts do not stop at the border of the implementing jurisdiction. We use geographically precise longitudinal employment data documenting worker job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the...

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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports

Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby … areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that … estimate agglomeration shadows cast on nearby areas. We find that empirically, as in the simulations, detectable agglomeration …

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The Modern Wholesaler : Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies

Ganapati, Sharat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Nearly half of all transactions in the $5 trillion market for manufactured goods in the United States were intermediated by wholesalers in 2012, up from 32 percent in 1992. Seventy percent of this increase is due to the growth of "superstar" firms - the largest one percent of wholesalers....

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Accessibility and land use : the case of suburban Seattle, 1960 - 1990

Stanilov, Kiril - In: Regional studies 37 (2003) 8, pp. 783-794

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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012

Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...

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Agglomeration and the geography of localization economies in Canada

Baldwin, John R.; Beckstead, Desmond; Brown, W. Mark; … - In: Regional studies 42 (2008) 1, pp. 117-132

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City regions and place development

Healey, Patsy - In: Regional studies 43 (2009) 6, pp. 831-843

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Is specialization good for regional economic development?

Kemeny, Thomas; Storper, Michael - In: Regional studies 49 (2015) 6, pp. 1003-1018

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