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Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China
Demurger, Sylvie - 2002
Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their...
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National Policy for Regional Development : Evidence from Appalachian Highways
Jaworski, Taylor - 2016
How effective are policies aimed at integrating isolated regions? We answer this question using the construction of a highway system in one of the poorest regions in the United States. With construction starting in 1965, the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) ultimately consisted of...
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Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push : 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
Kline, Patrick M. - 2013
We study the long run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs in U.S. history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were proposed but never approved by Congress, we find that the TVA led to large gains in agricultural employment that...
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Diversity in Innovation
Gompers, Paul A. - 2017
In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture capital labor pool,...
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Place-Based Policies
Neumark, David - 2014
Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
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Accelerating Innovation Ecosystems : The Promise and Challenges of Regional Innovation Engines
Guzman, Jorge; Murray, Fiona E. S.; Stern, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Motivated by the establishment of major U.S. Federal programs seeking to harness the potential of regional innovation … ecosystems, we assess the promise and challenges of place-based innovation policy interventions. Relative to traditional research … grants, place-based innovation policy interventions are not directed toward a specific research project but rather aim to …
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Redistribution Policy : A European Model
Casella, Alessandra - 2002
Following the rationale for regional redistribution programs described in the official documents of the European Union, this paper studies a very simple multi-country model built around two regions: a core and a periphery. Technological spill-overs link firms' productivity in each of the two...
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Do Credit Market Shocks affect the Real Economy? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and ‘Normal’ Economic Times
Greenstone, Michael - 2014
We estimate the effect of the reduction in credit supply that followed the 2008 financial crisis on the real economy. We predict county lending shocks using variation in pre-crisis bank market shares and estimated bank supply-shifts. Counties with negative predicted shocks experienced declines...
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European Technology Policy
Eaton, Jonathan - 1998
of policies that facilitate the adoption of innovations are more evenly spread …
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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2009
The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...
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