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A new regional balance : challenges and opportunities for intermediate city regions in Europe : 54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association
Cornett, Andreas P. - 2014 - Preliminary version
located in the vicinity of the large urban agglomeration or farer away in the country. The project is both explorative and …
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Determinants of Regional Growth by Manufacturing Sector in Mexico, 1998-2008
Pereira, Mariana - 2015
, agglomeration economies, and initial conditions, the south, the center and the Gulf of Mexico have a relative disadvantage for …This article presents an empirical analysis aimed at identifying the determinants of regional growth in Mexico by … manufacturing sector in the period 1988-2008. In the framework of agglomeration economies it argues that the main factor behind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034301
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Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms
Holl, Adelheid; Peters, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2020
Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known about potential contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper focuses on the role of the local knowledge environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167049
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Urban cultural amenities and the migration of the creative class
Dalvai, Wilfried - 2016 - This version: March 2015
, financed by taxes, is introduced as an agglomeration force. The public-good is purely consumed by skilled workers. Additionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441482
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Delineating functional territories from outer space
Berdegué, Julio A.; Hiller, Tatiana; Ramírez, Juan … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-24
three developing countries: Mexico, Colombia and Chile. The first step of this method uses nighttime satellite images to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029619
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Concentration of resources and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25
modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304117
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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490043
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Quality of life, firm productivity, and the value of amenities across Canadian cities
Albouy, David; Leibovici, Fernando; Warman, Casey - 2012
This paper presents the first hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life and firm productivity differences across Canadian cities, using data on local wages and housing costs. These estimates account for the unobservability of land rents and geographic differences in federal and...
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Measuring the environmental performance of metropolitan areas with geographic information sources
Piacentini, Mario; Rosina, Konstantin - 2012
This paper presents recent work undertaken at the OECD to produce environmental indicators at the regional level from geographic data sources. New indicators have been tested and produced in five different domains: a) land cover, b) forest ecosystems, c) urban density, d) CO2 emissions, e) air...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009561127
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Repeated choices under dynamics externalities
Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo - 2011
We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect differences in the underlying structure of agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230407