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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports
Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...
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Decentralization, Social Capital and Regional Convergence
Mauro, Luciano - 2013
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
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Italy's National Recovery and Resilient Plan : will it narrow the North-South productivity gap?
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2023
We develop an endogenous growth model to simulate the long-term impact of Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) on the persistent North-South productivity gap. Our model underscores public investment as a catalyst for sustained economic growth and highlights the reliance of local...
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A century of regional inequalities in Brazil
Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos; Alves, Pedro Jorge Holanda - 2022
This work calculates coefficients of spatial inequalities of wealth amongst Brazilian municipalities, for each year for the period from 1920 to 2016, states of the federation, from 1939 to 2017, and amongst municipalities from each of the five Brazilians' macro-regions, from 1920 to 2016. The...
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"Urbanization and decentralization : the changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services" : paper for 54th European regional Science Association Con...
Braun, Joachim von - 2014
"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492002
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Achieving strong and balanced regional development in India
Joumard, Isabelle; Morgavi, Hermes; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
While India’s per capita income is converging towards that of the richer countries, inequality has drifted up. Spatial inequality – across states and between urban and rural areas – is pronounced, with large differences in output per capita and in access to core public services, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732714
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Growth agglomeration effects in spatially interdependent Latin American regions
Guevara, Carolina - 2015
of the evidence of a rapid pace of urbanization process. Using a database with information of 162 regions of 8 Latin … estimate the effect of agglomeration on regional growth in three periods. The measures of agglomeration are urbanization rate … effect of urbanization changes was 5700 dollars of per capita income. Low-developed regions experience larger positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480257
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Mobile Phones and Local Economic Development : A Global Evidence
Mensah, Justice Tei - 2021
In this paper, I present global evidence on the impact of expansion in mobile telephony and broadband Internet services on economic development at the subnational level. Leveraging two decades of satellite data on nightlights and the global expansion of 2G and 3G mobile networks in 3419...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236462
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Understanding Russian Regions’ Economic Performance during Periods of Decline and Growth — An Extreme Bound Analysis Approach
Ahrend, Rudiger - 2012
This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind the widely differing economic growth in Russian regions prior to the recent global financial crisis. Using data of regional growth in 1995–2006 for 77 Russian regions, it examines the growth drivers for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097624
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Understanding Russian Regions' Economic Performance during Periods of Decline and Growth : An Extreme-bound Analysis Approach
Ahrend, Rudiger - 2008
This paper uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind widely differing economic growth in Russian regions. Using data of 77 regions for 1993-2004, it separately examines the growth drivers for the phase of economic decline up to 1998, and for the period of strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444893