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Top lights : bright cities and their contribution to economic development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
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/10011951641
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Growth, Development, and Structural Change at the Firm-Level : The Example of the PR China
Heinrich, Torsten; Yang, Jangho; Dai, Shuanping - 2021
innovation economics and development policy. We study the economic transition of the PR China from an agrarian country to a high … provinces and autonomous regions of the P.R. China, we also show that there are systematic relations between micro-level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244827
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Top Lights - Bright Cities and their Contribution to Economic Development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
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/10012018102
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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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Regional Dimensions of Economic Development in Iran - A New Economic Geography Approach
Farmanesh, Amir - 2009
more traditional. Dispersion and decentralization of industries to achieve lower income inequality between provinces would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012719489
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Economic Geography with Spatial Econometrics: a 'Third Way' to Analyse Economic Development and 'Equilibrium', with Application to the EU Regions.
Fingleton, B. - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 1999
The main item of agreement between the 'new' and 'old' economic geography is the role of increasing returns in regional economic development. This provides a focal point for the model of this paper, which aims to highlight the existence of a 'third way' somewhere between the analysis provided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744369
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Regional determinants of new business formation in China: Prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015
strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400491
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Regional determinants of new business formation in China : prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015 - Draft version
strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480854
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Culture and the Economy : Clan, Entrepreneurship, and Development of the Private Sector in China
Zhang, Chuanchuan - 2019
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between culture and the economy, investigating the role of clan in China …'s unprecedented development of the private sector. Although with no well-developed financial and legal systems, China witnesses a boom …-census population survey and economic census data, I find that China's clan culture is positively associated with the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902691
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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor : An Assessment of its Feasibility and Impact on Regional Cooperation
Wolf, Siegfried - 2016
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion dollar infrastructure investment project, is heralded as a … initiative led by China, known as ‘One Belt, One Road' (OBOR), to connect Asia with Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the CPEC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983845