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Global food prices, local weather and migration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ludolph, Lars; Šedová, Barbora - 2021

In this paper, we study the effect of exogenous global crop price changes on migration from agricultural and non-agricultural households in Sub-Saharan Africa. We show that, similar to the effect of positive local weather shocks, the effect of a locally-relevant global crop price increase on...

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Natural disaster, migration, and regional development

Ikazaki, Daisuke - 2015

As described in this paper, a simple matching theory is constructed to ascertain how natural disasters affect regional economic activities and migration. Section 2 introduces a simple matching theory model based on previous studies. This theory explains how the unemployment rate, a measure of...

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A spatial analysis of inter-regional patient mobility in Italy

Balia, Silvia; Brau, Rinaldo; Marrocu, Emanuela - 2016

Free patient mobility among autonomous providers has been often considered an effective stimulus for enhancing healthcare. However, some jurisdictions may underperform due to the existence of economies of scale and spatial spillovers. Where regions assume the costs of providing care to...

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Chicken or egg? : transport and urban development in Berlin

Möller, Torsten Kristoffer; Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; … - 2013

Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...

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Transition and path-dependence in knowledge-intensive industry location : case of Russian professional services

Ivanov, Denis S. - 2014

This paper searches for roots of current spatial pattern of professional services in location of Soviet-era R&D sector. The Soviet economy sponsored massive R&D oriented mainly on military purposes. Research was carried out in large institutions affiliated with academia or industry. After the...

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The spatial dimension of trade- and FDI-driven productivity growth in Chinese provinces : a global cointegration approach

Özyurt, Selin; Mitze, Timo - 2012

regional growth impact of the Chinese internationalization activity on labour productivity over the period 1979-2006. Our … Trade- and FDI-led growth in a dynamic error correction modelling framework. Our results indicate that, in the long … the short-run, changes in FDI activity and especially human capital variables are found to matter for the regional growth …

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The role of destination spatial spillovers and technological intensity in the location of manufacturing and services' firms

Artal Tur, Andrés; Navarro-Azorín, José Miguel; … - 2011

Focusing on the characteristics of destinations, this paper pursues to identify the role of spatial spillovers in driving location choices of manufacturing and services' firms. With this objective a spatial conditional logit framework is defined, allowing for neighbourhood-related spatial...

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The role of SMEs in sustainable regional development and local business integration : the case of Lublin region (Poland)

Arent, Anna; Bojar, Matylda; Duarte, Nelson; Diniz, … - 2015

This paper analyses the role of SMEs in regional development, focusing the particular case of This paper analyses the role of SMEs in regional development, focusing the particular case of Lublin Region in Poland. By using a questionnaire presented to firms that are operating in manufacturing and...

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Modelling the impacts of a national carbon tax in a country with inhomogeneous regional development : an actor-based system-dynamic approach : paper presented at ERSA 54th Congress...

Kovalevsky, Dmitry V.; Hasselmann, Klaus - 2014

Different countries of the world are affected differently by the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change. For a large country consisting of several regions with different geographical conditions, the direct geographical impacts of climate change may differ significantly. Given the...

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Turning the global thermostat : who, when, and how much?

Rickels, Wilfried; Quaas, Martin F.; Ricke, Kate; … - 2019

the global climate, and climate change adjusted GDP growth rates. We find that even though some countries would have …

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