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Market Potential and Distance Decay - Growth and decline of sectors across locations in urban regions

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - 2013

This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. We focus on three categories of firms: (i)...

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The Role of Geography and Institutions in determining FDI flows into Italian Provinces

Battista, Attilio Di - 2013

This paper describes the determinants of FDI location among Italian provinces, focusing on the role of market potential (in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime, corruption of public officers, inefficiency of the labour...

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Market Potential and Regional Economic Growth in Spain, 1860-1930

González-Val, Rafael; Martínez-Galarraga, Julio; … - 2014

In this paper we employ parametric and nonparametric techniques to analyse the effect of the changes registered on regional market potential on the growth of Spanish regions during the period 1860-1930. The study of the Spanish experience during these years conforms a case study that allows...

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Regional Characteristics and the Survival of New Firms

Karlsson, Charlie; Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2015

There is an abundant literature on industrial ecology aiming at explaining the survival propensity of recently started firms. The majority of the contributions concentrate on the characteristics of the entrepreneur, the new firm or the industry. Only a small minority of the existing studies...

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Why do empirical tests tend to accept the NEG? - An alternative approach to the 'wage equation' in European regions

Bruna, Fernando - 2015

This paper posits a new approach to the ?wage equation? of the New Economic Geography (NEG). On one side, it is shown that the NEG provides a spatial explanation of marginal costs, instead of wages. On the other side, and focusing on the statistical properties of the data, it is explained why...

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Economic-geographical position as a factor of regional development in Russia

Zemtsov, Stepan; Baburin, Vyacheslav - 2016

The category of economic-geographical position (EGP) is one of the most common in regional science in Russia. N. Baranskiy firstly proposed the concept: 'EGP is an attitude of any place to other outside lying givens that have a particular economic significance. It is extremely important to a...

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Commercialization and consumption of coffee in Mexico, a proposal of methodology approach

Velazquez, Marisol - 2014

This work presents advances of the doctoral thesis 'Commercialization and consumption of coffee in Mexico' under the … of industrial goods, agri-food chains and coffee that were reviewed to locate indicators, similarities, differences and …, methodological and a view of empirical advances of the GVC applying to the coffee chain which is discussed under governance in its …

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Robots, Reshoring, and the Lot of Low-Skilled Workers

Krenz, Astrid; Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus - 2019

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production back to the home economy but without improving...

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Which Factors Determine the Utilization of Preferential Tariff Rates?

Lukaszuk, Piotr; Legge, Stefan - 2019

The number of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements has surged in recent years. In order to benefit from preferential tariff rates,firms must apply and comply with rules of origin requirements. This is costly and explains why preference utilization rates (PUR) are far below 100 percent. In...

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An Exploratory Study Comparing Public Telecommunication Policies on Telecommunication Tariffs Supports in Korea, Japan, European Countries, and the U.S.

Lee, Jongyong; Baek, U Jin; Lee, Jongtae - 2017

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