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Die berufliche Positionierung ausländischer Erwerbspersonen in Bayern
Schutkin, Andreas - 2000
Die Arbeit untersucht den beruflichen Platzierungsprozess in Bayern ansässiger Ausländer. Betrachtet werden …Research was being done on the professional situation of foreigners living in Bavaria. The employees were of Italian … of foreigners in Bavaria.Very important for the research work was to subdivide the groups of people employed into single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450189
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Effect of a Differentially Applied Environmental Regulation on Agricultural Trade Patterns and Production Location: The Case of Methyl Bromide
Lynch, Lori; Malcolm, Scott A.; Zilberman, David - 2005
It has been hypothesized that differentially applied environmental regulations create pollution havens, as firms will choose to invest in countries with lax environmental standards. Using a theoretical model of pest control adoption and an empirical spatial equilibrium model, we examine one such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445544
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The Final Frontier? Border Effects and German Regional Wages
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002
Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442363
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Transfers, Agglomeration and German Unification
Ross, Matthias - 2001
This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers on agglomeration of economic activity. Two main results can be derived: First, subsidies to the activity of firms are more efficient to avoid agglomeration than subsidies to consumers (social...
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The Impact of Optimal Tariffs and Taxes on Agglomeration
Ross, Matthias - 2002
This paper extends an economic geography model by tariffs to analyze their impact on welfare and sustainability of agglomerations. Policies with and without cooperation are compared, with the goal of maximizing aggregated welfare in the former and regional welfare in the latter case. The main...
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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations
Bayer, Patrick; Timmins, Christopher - 2003
With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economic problems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e., simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444180
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A Note on the Equilibrium Properties of Locational Sorting Models
Bayer, Patrick; Timmins, Christopher - 2003
A central feature of many models of location choice – whether of firms or households, within or across cities – is the role of local interactions or spillovers, whereby the payoffs from choosing a location depend in part on the number or attributes of other individuals or firms that choose the...
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North American freight rail: regulatory evolution, strategic rejuvenation, and the revival of an ailing industry
Cramer, Barton Emmet - 2007
North American railways were crucial to the integration of national territories from the mid-1850s through the 1920s. In the US, Canada, and Mexico, their development supported population settlement, resource extraction, industrialization, and the expansion of markets to regional and national...
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"A Framework for agent-based computational economics in economic geography"
Schenk, Tom - 2006
Faculty Advisor: David Skidmore, Professor Department of Politics and International Relations, College of Arts and Sciences Drake University. Student editorial board for the Spring 2006 issue include: Teresa Abbey, Brittany Buchholz, Brett Myrick and Jeff Scheiber.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467699
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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations
Bayer, Patrick J.; Timmins, Christopher - 2005
With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economicproblems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e.,simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475557