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Regional manufacturing employment volatility in Canada: The effects of specialisation and trade
Baldwin, John; Brown, W. - In: Papers in Regional Science 83 (2004) 3, pp. 519-541
employment volatility levels across Canadian regions during the period 1976-1997. Using cross-sectional analysis, we indicate … associated with decreased volatility in larger regions, but these variables have the opposite effect for smaller regions. The … decreased. The former tends to dampen volatility and the latter tends to magnify it. When these offsetting effects are taken …
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How Market Structure Affects Firm Entry in Rural and Urban Communities: Evidence from Rural Iowa
Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kim, Younjun; Orazem, Peter F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916082
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Researches on Relationship between Circular Agriculture and Industrial Diversity
Zuo, Mi; Feng, Gong - In: Asian Agricultural Research 03 (2011) 06
First, this paper establishes the conceptual model of circular agriculture, conducts systematic analysis on the circular agriculture on the basis of conceptual model, and discusses the characteristics of closeness and openness of circular agriculture and relationship between closeness and...
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Testing urbanization economies in manufacturing industries: urban diversity or urban size?
Fu, Shihe; Hong, Junjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Whether urbanization economies are caused by urban diversity or urban scale is not clear in regional and urban economics literature. Many empirical studies have used either city population size or urban industrial diversity to measure urbanization economies and have reached different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789496
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Learning investment and industrial diversity in urban growth
Tse, Chung-Yi - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 2, pp. 413-433
This paper studies an urban growth model where learning through personal contacts could be more effective in a denser locale, whereas the effectiveness of learning through impersonal means of communications depends principally on the technology of communications rather than on the locale in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970369
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Does agglomeration matter everywhere?: new firm location decisions in rural and urban markets
Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kim, Younjun; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2014
We test whether commonly used measures of agglomeration economies encourage new firm entry in both urban and rural markets.  Using new firm location decisions in Iowa and North Carolina, we find that measured agglomeration economies increase the probability of new firm entry in both urban and...
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Economic Diversification in LICs; Stylized Facts and Macroeconomic Implications
Papageorgiou, Chris; Spatafora, Nicola - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
diversified their economies. Third, to analyze the relationship between diversification, growth, and volatility. …
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Trade Integration and Monetary Integration
Guerin, Jean-Louis; Lahrèche-Revil, Amina - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2001) 204
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International trade, risk taking and welfare
Vannoorenberghe, G. - In: Journal of International Economics 92 (2014) 2, pp. 363-374
unemployment rate, (ii) increases the volatility of sectoral sales and (iii) increases welfare proportionately less than in the …
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Implications of exchange rate volatility on international trade (The case of Romania)
Ghiba, Nicolae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims to establish particularities for the relationship between exchange rate volatility and the … contradicted by practical cases. This analysis starts from well-known cases in this domain from around the world. Volatility of … exchange rate on international trade is debated on Romania’s example using econometric methods. The volatility of exchange rate …
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