This paper addresses the timing of historical transition from rural to urban activity. In our model, rural production …

Attracting manufacturing investment is a frequently used rural development policy. Previous research in the location … the interaction of birth and death of establishments. A conceptual model of county-level investment in the U ….S. counties in the lower 48 states. Counts of establishments are from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Dynamic Firm Data Series, which …

obesity in urban food markets. Our empirical model combined georeferenced micro data on access to fast food restaurants and … reducing the density of fast food restaurants or increasing access to grocery stores. We accounted for spatial heterogeneity in …

In the vicinity of a city, farmers are confronted with increasing agricultural land prices and rents along the rural … farming, exurban farmers may sell their land for conversion to urban use. Urban pressure in the rural-urban fringe intensifies … with data for the metropolitan area of Indianapolis, IN and its immediate hinterland. Our initial empirical results …

This paper addresses changes in capital formation by testing the importance of location factors with respect to the … rate of establishment births and deaths in U.S. manufacturing, 2000–2004. A theoretical concept called “localized creative … counties with high initial birth/death rates have smaller changes in firm birth and death rates. The interpretation is that …

effect on growth of grocery sales, especially in low population areas. The results suggest that the large stores are new …

This paper addresses changes in capital formation by testing the importance of location factors with respect to the … rate of establishment births and deaths in U.S. manufacturing, 2000–2004. A theoretical concept called “localized creative … counties with high initial birth/death rates have smaller changes in firm birth and death rates. The interpretation is that …

, income inequality consistently shows a negative impact on employment growth in the construction sector, and results are mixed … Food Services; Educational Services. In several sectors, mixed results were obtained when differentiation is made between …

economic growth in cities that subsequently trickles down to the hinterland, is increasingly being challenged. In particular … as hierarchical organization principles have been emphasized in the more recent literature. This paper utilizes … neoclassical growth model and compare it to a spatial version of an endogenous growth model allowing for "domestic" investment in …