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account geography. With this aim, our model integrates elements of the theories of endogenous growth, natural resources and … new economic geography. We find that an increase in the world growth rate can lead to a higher depletion of the natural … resources following an increase in the world demand due to expansion in population. However, the consideration of geography and …
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This paper analyses the process of delinking for landfilling trends embedding the dynamics in a frame where economic, geographical and policy variables enter the arena We aim at investigating in depth what main drivers may be responsible for such a phenomenon, and whether differences may be...
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systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … across regions, fostering predatory behavior from the poorly endowed ones. In such an environment it was mutually beneficial …, capital accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant …
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This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the …-periphery approach, has a significant impact on its bankruptcy risk; (ii) Variables proxying for the cultural environment of a firm have … confirmed. -- bankruptcy ; geography ; culture ; exit …
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We investigate geo-referenced household-level data consisting of up to 206,896 individuals living in 21,826 localities across 28 sub-Saharan African countries over 20 years. We analyse the relevance of coastal proximity as a predictor of individual economic living standards. Our setting allows...
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