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Mobility and Regional Competitiveness in the Digital Age
Zuti, Bence - 2018
Digitalization is one of the key drivers of accelerated change in our everyday lives, both on an economic and social level. With solutions enabled through ICT technologies, we are more connected than ever on the global scale. In this next chapter of globalization, we currently experience...
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Transformation of regional innovation systems : from old legacies towards new development paths : to be presented at ERSA Conference, Bratislava, August 21-26, 2012, forthcoming in...
Tödtling, Franz; Trippl, Michaela - 2012
Over the past 20 years, the innovation system approach has significantly enhanced our understanding of the innovation process, stressing its non-linear, systemic, interactive and evolutionary character. The notion of regional innovation systems (RISs) highlights the regional dimension of new...
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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis
Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012
also uneven across space, it also seems relevant to wonder about the effects of the geographic agglomeration of economic … activity. Moreover, it seems relevant to consider not only the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also their change … specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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Agglomeration index : towards a new measure of urban concentration
Uchida, Hirotsugu; Nelson, Andrew - 2010
) and the world. This paper proposes an alternative to the UN measure of urban concentration that we call an agglomeration … index. -- agglomeration index ; urbanization ; accessibility map ; cost surface …
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Globalizing Shanghai : international migration and the global city
Shen, Wei - 2010
Cities are the focal point for the mobility of talents, located between the nations and firms, states and educational institutions. Shanghai, being regarded as the 'ultimate poster-child for the effects of globalization on cities and regions' by the BBC (2007), the city is argued as the best...
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Collaboration in pharmaceutical research : exploration of country-level determinants
Plotnikova, Tatiana; Rake, Bastian - 2011
In this paper we focus on proximity as one of the main determinants of international collaboration in pharmaceutical research. We use various count data specifications of the gravity model to estimate the intensity of collaboration between pairs of countries as explained by the geographical,...
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Nation size and unemployment
Berthold, Norbert; Gründler, Klaus - 2011
Throughout the world, strong dispersions of both regional and national unemployment rates can be observed. The economic theory has developed various explanations on how this differences occur. Corresponding models mainly aim at institutional and political framework, insider effects, efficiency...
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Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
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Re-evaluating the economic costs of conflicts
Fonseca, Mariana Lopes da; Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2015
This paper studies the economic costs of conflicts at the country and ethnic group settlement level with light output data as measured by orbital satellites and conflict data spatially mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates. Using a worldwide dataset of 7,704 individual ethnic group...
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Will skyscrapers save the planet? : building height limits and urban greenhouse gas emissions
Borck, Rainald - 2014
This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...
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