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Long-Range Growth : Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links
Campante, Filipe R. - 2016
We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978375
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Long-Range Growth : Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links
Campante, Filipe R. - 2016
We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982869
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Spatial Externalities and Growth in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil World : Theory and Evidence
Fischer, Manfred M. - 2017
This paper presents a theoretical growth model that accounts for technological interdependence among regions in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil world. The reasoning behind the theoretical work is that technological ideas cannot be fully appropriated by investors and these ideas may diffuse and increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965575
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"Megacities and countries : urbanization and real convergence"
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014
A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487041
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Global Investments and Regional Development Trajectories : The Missing Links
Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2016
Regional economic development has been long conceptualised as a non-linear, interactive and socially embedded process: these features were traditionally regarded as spatially mediated and highly localised. However, unprecedentedly fast technological change coupled with the intensification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980363
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The Wealth of Subnations : Geography, Institutions, and Within-Country Development
Mitton, Todd - 2014
I study fundamental determinants of economic development in a new dataset covering 1,867 subnational regions from 101 countries, focusing on within-country effects of geography and institutions. I find that several geographic factors have significant explanatory power for within-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159523
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Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, & Income Levels : Some US State-Level Empirics
Wiseman, Travis - 2013
Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following …) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of these relationships using US state-level real GDP per capita, the … Economic Freedom of North America index, and the state-level productive and unproductive entrepreneurship scores provided by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093550
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Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development
Bluhm, Richard - 2019
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892172
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Trends in the relation between regional convergence and economic growth in EU
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2016
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between regional convergence inside of countries in EU and overall economic growth, and, based on it, to establish some relevant behavioural regimes. As data sources we are using the available dataset NUTS 2 from EUROSAT for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866850
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Unconditional convergence in currency unions : an analysis of European regions from 1991 to 2009
Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013
We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely heterogenous, highly discontinuous and strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424527