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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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Estimating the Impact of Shuttle Launches on Regional Economic Activity
Vitt, David - 2018
The objective of this study is to quantify the impact of public investment in space programs on the regional economic activity in the areas host to the program launch operations. I implement an econometric strategy that takes the timing of the Shuttle program retirement as a natural experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931922
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Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America
Allcott, Hunt; Keniston, Daniel - 2016
Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a "Natural Resource Curse," perhaps as Dutch Disease crowds out manufacturing? We combine new data on oil and gas abundance with Census of Manufactures microdata to estimate how oil and gas booms have affected local economies in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131701
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Productivity growth in Chinese cities : the agglomeration effect for cross-regional industrial structures
Ge, Yuanjun; Chang, Fa-Hsiang - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 28 (2021) 4/629, pp. 91-104
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259056
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Regional GDP in Mexico, 1895-2010
Aguilar Retureta, José; Badia-Miró, Marc; Herranz … - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 211-239). 2020
analysing the case of Mexico from 1895 to 2010. Economic differences among Mexican regions are substantial and have been … may have different trends and determinants from those of the industrialized economies. In the case of Mexico, regional … activity in Mexico City and a clear division between the rich North and the poor South. By contrast, the period from 1940 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415496
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The impact of innovation, knowledge spillovers and oil prices on economic growth of the regions of Kazakhstan
Mukhamediyev, Bulat; Spankulova, Lazat - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 10 (2020) 4, pp. 78-84
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Does administrative status matter for urban growth? : evidence from present and former county capitals in East Germany
Heider, Bastian; Kauffmann, Albrecht; Rosenfeld, Martin … - 2016 - (This version: October 2016)
Public sector activities are often neglected in the economic approaches used to analyze the driving forces behind urban growth. The institutional status of a regional capital is a crucial aspect of public sector activities. This paper reports on a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547143
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Does administrative status matter for urban growth? : evidence from present and former county capitals in East Germany
Heider, Bastian; Kauffmann, Albrecht; Rosenfeld, Martin … - 2016
Public sector activities are often neglected in the economic approaches used to analyze the driving forces behind urban growth. The institutional status of a regional capital is a crucial aspect of public sector activities. This paper reports on a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500163
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Skills substitutability and technological progress : U.S. states 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2003
In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509429
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Estimating the amenity costs of global warming in Brazil : getting the most from available data
Timmins, Christopher - 1999
This paper develops a theoretically consistent technique for valuing non-marketed local attributes using compensating income differentials in the absence of housing market data. The individual's indirect utility function is identified with aggregate data describing equilibrium location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613025