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This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...
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challenge by identifying the location of clusters based on neighbor relationships and specialization in Brazil and providing …
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on tariff barriers as the only obstacle to international trade and integration. In this paper we use data from Brazil and …
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Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service …
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It is widely accepted that investing in public infrastructure promotes economic development. However, there is little … awareness of the prevalence of unfinished infrastructure projects and their consequences. In this paper, I study the effect of … unfinished sewerage infrastructure on early-life mortality in Peru. I compile several sources of administrative panel data for 1 …
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The standard two-country model of international trade with monopolistic competition predicts a more-than-proportional relationship between a country's share of world production of a good and its share of world demand for that same good, a result known as the "home market effect". We first show...
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economic activity; ii) urban infrastructure development on the economic costs of curbing carbon emissions. Importantly, it is … found that combining urban infrastructure and carbon pricing allows for stringent emissions reduction targets, while still …
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We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a …
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