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Colombian Regions : Competitive or Complementary?
Bonet, Jaime Alfredo - 2006
This paper analyses the characteristics of interregional competition and complementarity in Colombia during the period 1960-2000. The analysis is based on an application of the Dendrinos-Sonis model which is calculated using the SUR estimator. The evidence shows a country with a low level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779439
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Cities in Competition, Characteristic Time, and Leapfrogging Developers
Broitman, Dani; Czamanski, Daniel - 2021
In a recent paper Czamanski and Roth (2011) demonstrated that because the profitability of construction projects is influenced by variations in the time incidence of costs and revenues, despite of declining willingness-to-pay and land gradients with distance from central business districts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221675
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On Competition for Spatially Distributed Resources in Networks : An Extended Version
Fabbri, Giorgio; Faggian, Silvia; Freni, Giuseppe - 2022
We study the dynamics of the exploitation of a natural resource distributed among and flowing between several nodes connected via a weighted, directed network. The network represents both the locations and the interactions of the resource nodes. A regulator decides to designate some of the nodes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291200
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Resilient Regions : Re-'Place'ing Regional Competitiveness
Bristow, Gillian - 2010
Resilience is attracting increasing interest in the thinking and policy discourses around regional development. However, regional development policy remains dominated by a narrow discourse of competitiveness that appears to have negative implications for resilience and is subject to increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146878
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An Approach to Regional Competitiveness
Sequeira, Tiago - 2004
In this paper, we develop a specific method to approach the competitive capabilities of regions for which there are not commercial and specialization indicators available. This method bases on the construction of composite indicators, using multivariate statistical methods, and was applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075093
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Colombian regions: Competitive or complementary?
Bonet, Jaime - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL ROSARIO (2003)
This paper analyses the characteristics of interregional competition and complementarity in Colombia during the period 1960-2000. The analysis is based on an application of the Dendrinos-Sonis model which is calculated using the SUR estimator. The evidence shows a country with a low level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005603816
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Explaining port size : accessibility, hinterland competition and a semi-endogenously determined W.
Vanoutrive, Thomas - 2012
. Furthermore, some argue that concentration of ports might increase regional inequalities in Europe. For instance, the European … the robustness of the current distribution of port activities in Europe we investigate what the effect would be of changes … that major changes in the general port layout of Europe are not to be expected. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509243
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In Fatal Pursuit of Immortal Fame : Peer Competition and Early Mortality of Music Composers
Borowiecki, Karol; Kavetsos, Georgios - 2015
We investigate the impact of peer competition on longevity using a unique historical data set of 144 prominent music composers born in the 19th century. We approximate for peer competition measuring (a) the number or (b) the share of composers located in the same area and time, (c) the time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136546
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Competition, imitation, and R&D productivity in agrowth model with sector-specific patent protection
Mosel, Malte - 2009
Recent empirical studies suggest a need for a flexible patent regime responding to industry characteristics. In practice, sector-specific modifications of patent strength already exist but lack theoretical foundation. This paper intends to make up for this neglect by scrutinizing in what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294690
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Privatization, deregulation, and capital accumulation
Glomm, Gerhard; Méndez, Fabio - In: Southern economic journal 75 (2009) 4, pp. 976-995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863343