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Canadians' access to cash before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chen, Heng; Felt, Marie-Hélène - 2022
This paper studies Canadians' access to cash using the geographical distribution of automated banking machines (ABMs). We find that over 97% of urban Canadians have access to ABMs in their communities, while 92% of rural people have access to at least one ABM. During the pandemic, there have...
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How far do Canadians need to travel to access cash?
Chen, Heng; O'Habib, Daneal; Xiao, Hong Yu - 2023
This paper develops a travel-based metric to measure Canadians' access to cash from automated banking machines (ABMs) and financial institution branches. Our findings indicate that the average distance Canadians need to travel to reach the nearest ABM is 2.0 km, while the average distance to the...
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Socialʹno-ėkonomičeskie problemy sovremennoj rossijskoj ėkonomiki ; Č.1
Adamov, N. A. (contributor) - 2013
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Agglomeration, innovation and regional development : theoretical perspectives and meta-analysis
Groot, Henri L. F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - 2007
Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally … structure characterised by its extent of specialisation, competition and diversity, to yield innovation and productivity growth … (diversity) and Porter externalities (competition) that have provided alternative explanations for innovation and urban growth …
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Business development and the growth of rural SMEs
Freshwater, David; Garcilazo-Corredera, José Enrique; … - 2019
The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in rural regions across a number of OECD geographies. It argues that SME creation is especially important for rural economic development and identified lessons for national level...
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Improving regional performance in Russia: a capability-based approach
Farra, Fadi; Klos, Nadia; Schober, Uwe; Sigalova, Olga; … - 2013
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Regions and trademarks : research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies
Castaldi, Carolina; Mendonça, Sandro - 2021
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Firm innovation and generalized trust as a regional resource
Bischoff, Thore Sören; Hipp, Ann; Runst, Petrik - 2022
trust among people in regions on innovation using two distinct data sets. The first one contains firm-level data and is used … to analyze how trust affects firm-level innovation in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The second data set is … used to analyze the trust-innovation relationship within regions. It allows us to capture innovation in the form of patents …
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Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge
Ejermo, Olof; Hussinger, Katrin; Kalash, Basheer; … - 2021
We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...
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