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Multi-Regional Agent-Based Modeling of Household and Firm Location Choices with Endogenous Transport Costs

Tsekeris, Theodore; Vogiatzoglou, Klimis; Bekiros, Stelios - 2010

The paper describes a spatial economic agent-based model (ABM), consistent with the principles of new economic geography (NEG), which allows the discrete-time evolutionary simulation of complex interactions of household and firm location choices. In contrast with the current ABM approaches, it...

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Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion: A Diagrammatic Exposition

Arnott, Richard; Inci, Eren; Rowse, John - 2012

Through an extended numerical example, this paper develops a diagrammatic analysis of steady-state parking and traffic congestion in an isotropic downtown and provides systematic policy analysis. Unlike our previous work, the model incorporates curbside parking, garage parking, and...

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Does public transit reduce car travel externalities? Quasi-natural experiments' evidence from transit strikes

Ommeren, Jos Van; Adler, Martin - 2015

) both for the highway ring road as well as within the inner-city of Rotterdam. Finally, by examining heterogeneity in the …

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Survival dynamics in Portugal, a regional perspective

Sarmento, Elsa Morais; Nunes, Alcina - 2010

over time, when compared to the non-parametric estimation of Kaplan-Meier. By correcting heterogeneity with a different …

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The Impact Of Fdi On Firm Survival And Employment: A Comparative Analysis For Turkey And Italy

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Mazzotta, Fernanda; Taymaz, Erol; … - 2013

consider the heterogeneity of both MNEs and domestic firms (global engagement, firm and sector dimension, productivity, market …

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Home country bias in divestment decisions of multinational corporations in the EU

Resmini, Laura; Vittucci, Giuseppe - 2016

This paper deals with the performance of multinational enterprises (MNEs) during the recent financial crisis in the EU regions. According to the existing literature both foreign affiliates and local territories may benefit one from each other. There is a huge literature suggesting that FDI is...

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Heterogeneity and asymmetry in cross-section gravity models of aggregate migration

Peeters, Ludo - 2010

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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Industrial district heterogeneity and competitive advantage: Evidence from Italy

Carbonara, Nunzia; Giannoccaro, Ilaria - 2010

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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Firms' Heterogeneity, Endogenous Entry, and Exit Decisions

Totzek, Alexander - 2010

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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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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