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Space and growth
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
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Accumulation of education and regional income growth : limited human capital effects in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2011 - Date: February 1, 2011
Accumulation of education and geographic concentration of educated people in cities are expected to generate urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548140
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Shaking Up the Equilibrium : Natural Disasters, Immigration and Economic Geography
Ager, Philipp - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of a large temporary shock on the agglomeration of economic activity. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake across counties in the American West, we find that the earthquake persistently decreased various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013158
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Spatial Distribution of Regional Innovation Growth Capability and Policy Responses
Huh, Mun-Gu; Kim, Yunsoo - 2023
Concerns are mounting over the potential for weak future growth as the Korean economy faces a wide range of structural issues including an aging society, a crisis in key regional industries, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to these concerns, the Korean government has established innovation growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263108
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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008
Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011
. Within the hierarchical urban system, cities at different ranks (different size) take on different economic functions with … monocentric to a polycentric structure, which is usually considered as a possible strategy to eliminate diseconomies in urban … economics (Sasaki and Mun, 1996; Fujita et al., 1997). However, there is little empirical evidence on the links between urban …
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Market structure and sustainable use of natural resources
Yegorov, Yuri - 2015
. Yegorov Y. (2005) Role of Density and Field in Spatial Economics? ? In: Yee Lawrence (Ed). Contemporary Issues in Urban and …
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The Impact of Neutral and Nonneutral Productivity Growth on Creative Capital in a Trading Regional Economy
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2011
We analyze a two-sector model of a trading creative regional economy (TCRE) of the sort studied by Florida. Our analysis focuses on two cases. The first (second) case concerns the impact of faster neutral (non-neutral) productivity growth in the tradable sector on the employment of creative...
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Banking Networks and Economic Growth : From Idiosyncratic Shocks to Aggregate Fluctuations
Kundu, Shohini - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explore the transmission of non-bank capital shocks through banking networks. We develop a methodology to construct non-bank capital shocks, idiosyncratic shocks, using labor productivity shocks to large firms. We document a change in the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839265
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Cross-Sectional Growth In US Cities from 1990 to 2000
González-Val, Rafael - 2014
This paper analyses the growth of American cities, understood as the growth of the population or of the per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all the cities (incorporated places) with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1152 cities). The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050349
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Sequential City Growth in the US : Does Age Matter?
Sánchez-Vidal, Maria - 2014
We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...
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