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Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on sociological theory and using spatial regression techniques, I introduce social network matrices that correspond to a weighting scheme for peers within the class. In a spatial...
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We study spatio-temporal variation of peer effects in rooftop photovoltaics adoption of households. Our investigation employs locational data on potential adopters and a geocoded data set of all grid-connected photovoltaic systems set up in Germany through 2010. The detailed locational data...
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become increasingly concerned with "place competitiveness" (Bristow, 2011). …
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firms' competition. Secondly, one of the basic aspects regarding territorial competitiveness is the comparison between the …. One of them is competition. Though in classical political economy, the economic realm, with competition as its centerpiece …, seems to be carrying it over all other fields, today competition appears as the sole immanent category imbuing all aspects …
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level to agricultural household level, competitiveness operates as a selection mechanism (only certain agricultural … technology and production organization). Competitiveness increase in agriculture first means a major change with regard to the …
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This paper aims to elaborate the role of agglomeration effects on countries' competitiveness and entrepreneurial … characterized by spatial agglomeration (concentration) or deglomeration (deconcentration) processes, and its competitiveness and … deglomeration in their urban system. To exemplify country level competitiveness we applied the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI …
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whether this easy access to credit has led to improved productivity and competitiveness through an increase in long …
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in the framework of regional economic development and competitiveness. Diyarbakir-Sanliurfa Region is the seventh largest … economy. Second is to identify competitiveness of the region by comparing the regional economy with the national economic … technique was used. Then shift-share analysis was used to examine competitiveness of the region and to see economic projection …
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The competitiveness of EU regions This paper results from the project financed by the Grant Agency of the Czech … competitiveness. The concept of competitiveness is relatively new in the economics and the economic geography. In fact, there are no … competitiveness as a success in selling products or services on open markets. The macro-economic view is much more variable. It is …
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on territorial competitiveness in Romania and, in which areas of activity. The correct identification of the current and … in the domain of competitiveness are, in our opinion, some of the employable instruments required by the current economic … advantages), of external opportunities and threats, and of their inter-linkages is necessary to set the competitiveness policies …
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