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distance (while controlling for country size). Since geography may affect income through other channels, we also control for … climate, disease environment, natural resources, and colonial origins. Most importantly, we also account for the roles of …
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This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...
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There is well-known debate about the respective role of geography versus institutions in explaining the long term … of Sulawesi and find technology adoption to play a crucial role. We show that geography through its effects on migration …
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countries, we find remarkable differences in forecast accuracy, and show that they are partly related to geography and …
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found to be related to both the skills of analysts - such as their educational and employment backgrounds - and to geography …
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There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
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There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300189
Spatial proximity is assumed in the literature to be a prerequisite and trigger for cooperation and, subsequently, innovation. This paper examines conceptually the role of proximity between actors for cooperation activities. Using theories and findings from social psychology and combining them...
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Scientific collaboration, in most cases, is seen a joint action on a global scale that involves researchers from not just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic communities build up especially in the case of analytical modes...
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This initial paper of our interest on geography of online social network is based on a literature in which geographers … claimed to strongly twitted with physical world (Hayes, 1997). Parallel shift in economic geography research moved the focus …
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