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Modelling inter-regional trade flows: data and methodological issues in Rhomolo
Ivanova, Olga; Kancs, D'Artis; Stelder, Dirk - 2010
The present paper studies the modelling of inter-regional trade flows in the newly developed general equilibrium model of European Commission, Rhomolo. In contrast to international trade, usually, trade of goods and services between regions is not recorded statistically. As a result, no...
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Regional Determinants of German FDI in the Czech Republic - Evidence from a gravity model approach
Schäffler, Johannes; Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael - 2015
On the basis of a unique dataset the regional distribution of German multinationals and their Czech affiliates is analysed for both countries. The investigation covers market size and agglomeration features, distance issues, and labour market characteristics. Apart from the vital role of large...
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Distance and the margins of multinational firms' activities
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010
We present a model of multinational firms that predicts that aggregated affiliates' sales fall in distance. The distance effect on foreign affiliate sales is driven by the extensive margin: distance affects the number of affiliates negatively while it has an ambiguous effect on the average...
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German Direct Investments in the Czech Republic – Employment Effects on German Multinational Enterprises
Schäffler, Johannes - 2016
Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To address this question, a unique database about German firms with foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Czech Republic and firms without FDI in any country has been established....
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Spatial effects on technical progress: growth, and convergence among countries
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2004
This paper analyses how several spatial variables coming from cities and transportation system can affect money market … supply, and hence the price and output levels. Key words: transportation, regional growth, convergence, congestion. JEL Class …
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Estimation of Social Costs of Highways in Japan
Mizutani, Fumitoshi; Suzuki, Yusuke; Uranishi, Shuji - 2015
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate and evaluate the social costs of highways in Japan. In general, with more … people concerned about protecting the environment at both local and global levels, dependence on vehicular transportation in … necessary to measure correctly the social costs of vehicular transport such as traffic accidents, air pollution, noise, global …
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High speed rail and tourism: Empirical evidence from Spain's provinces and cities
Albalate, Daniel - 2015
ridership needs that exerts a substitution effect on air transportation, the main mode for long distance tourist mobility …. Finally, the analysis of HSR impacts on touristic cities receiving this mode of transportation does not show any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400441
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Logistic optimization in tourism networks
Frias, Armindo; Cabral, João; Costa, Álvaro - 2015
Tourism doesn?t depend on a specific resource and enable the integration of local populations and economies, generating benefits that have a stronger effect on regional development. Literature main stream identifies tourism as one of the activities with high impact on the development and for...
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The gravity of cross-border R&D expenditure
Leitner, Sandra; Dachs, Bernhard; Stehrer, Robert - 2012
In recent years, firms have considerably decentralized their research and development (R&D) activities. Subsidiaries of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) are now among the top performers of R&D in many EU and non-EU countries. Specifically, MNE affiliates account for around 20% of total...
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Exports Versus FDI Revisited: Does Finance Matter
Schnitzer, Monika; Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; … - 2010
The crisis on international financial markets that started in 2007 has shown the potential links between the financial sector and the real economy. Exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have declined, presumably not only because of a lack of demand, but also because of restricted access of...
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