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The territorial organisation of economies and societies is undergoing a dramatic change. Globalisation, technological innovation, migration and population ageing make it increasingly difficult to predict the future of regions. Economic change tests the ability of all regions to compete and the...
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Since 1960 foreign aid to countries with civil war has exceeded $300 billion in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Using a global panel of more than 150 civil wars between 1945 and 2000, this paper evaluates the impact of diplomatic, military and economic interventions on conflict duration. Moreover,...
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factors have been included to account for potentially correlated heterogeneity in the bilateral dimension that is … unobserved heterogeneity in all three dimensions results in appreciably lower magnitudes of all coefficients (except the one on …
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This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate concerning the role of heterogeneity for the GC competitive … advantage. With this aim, we focus on different sources of heterogeneity and study how the different level of heterogeneity … affects the performance of GCs. Specifically, we consider the GC heterogeneity due to: 1) the variety in the firms …
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Forecasting regional variables provides very important information for political, institutional and economic agents. However, in the present context characterized by important decline of economies, heterogeneous data and regional interdependencies, it is even more difficult to carry out accurate...
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, we explicitly analyse heterogeneity in the value of time and reliability using a novel semi-econometric procedure, based … substantial heterogeneity in the value of time and reliability. In order to avoid misspecification due to restrictive functional … form assumptions, but more importantly, to analyse the importance of observed and unobserved heterogeneity in the value of …
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As GDP is highly correlated with both entering and exiting firms, we develop a totally microfounded DSGE model with endogenous firms entry as well as exit decisions. We show that the simplifying assumption of a constant firms' death rate made by the recent literature on DSGE modelling can lead...
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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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We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980) and Lazear & Rosen (1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on players' effort and skill, the latter being subject to symmetric uncertainty. The model is tractable, because a...
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