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The hidden taxable capacity of land: enough and to spare

Gaffney, Mason - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) 4, pp. 328-411

Purpose – A tax based on land value is in many ways ideal, but many economists dismiss it by assuming it could not raise enough revenue. Standard sources of data omit much of the potential tax base, and undervalue what they do measure. The purpose of this paper is to present more comprehensive...

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Increasing Returns, Input-Output Linkages, and Technological Leapfrogging

Gallo, Fredrik - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 6 (2006) 1

is monotonically increasing in the benefits of agglomeration. Greater incompatibility between technologies also increases …

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Economic Geography and the Effect of Environmental Pollution on Agglomeration

Lange, Andreas; Quaas, Martin F - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

types of equilibria: symmetric spreading, partial and full agglomeration. We show that the extent of agglomeration crucially … relationships between the extent of agglomeration and trade freeness that have been found in the literature. …

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Infrastructure and FDI Inflows into Mexico: A Panel Data Approach

Mollick, Andre Varella; Ramos-Duran, Rene; Silva-Ochoa, … - In: Global Economy Journal 6 (2006) 1

In December 1993, restrictions to foreign ownership across major Mexican economic sectors were abolished. This paper studies output, industrialization intensity, ``international infrastructure", and government expenditures on infrastructure as determinants of FDI inflows into Mexican states over...

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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI – Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 1, pp. 86-116

Summary The last decade has been shaped by dramatic developments in international trade, international investment and production, both in terms of the scale of events and in terms of their qualitative nature. Intriguing questions have been thrown up concerning the labor market impact of these...

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Testing geographic and economic distance of agglomeration economies

Hong, Junjie - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 4 (2011) 1, pp. 55-59

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test geographic and economic distance of industrial agglomeration. Design … agglomeration economies. Findings – The estimation results provide strong evidence that agglomeration effects decline with … increasing geographic and economic distance. Originality/value – Previous studies examine agglomeration effects at certain …

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FDI agglomeration change in China

Pan, Mingming - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 5 (2012) 3, pp. 172-184

Purpose – No previous research has considered the changing agglomeration effect of foreign direct investment (FDI). The … agglomeration effect of FDI over time in China and further suggests that the effect has nearly vanished in the past few years … research is called for. It would provide more accurate and insightful information to study the FDI agglomeration effects at a …

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Is industrial agglomeration increasing? New evidence from a small open economy

Crawley, Andrew James; Hill, Stephen - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) 6, pp. 725-740

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine changes in manufacturing agglomeration in a small open economy over …/methodology/approach – This work adapts the methodology developed by De Propris to measure the relative level of manufacturing agglomeration … that manufacturing agglomeration has increased in Wales at a time when manufacturing employment is decreasing …

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External economies in banking

Shaffer, Sherrill - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 4 (2012) 4, pp. 354-365

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide the first empirical study of external economies (agglomeration …

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China’s trans-regional entrepreneurship

Song, Lin; Winkler, Christoph - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies 6 (2014) 3, pp. 202-222

technology’s importance on the development of innovation clusters that spur industrial agglomeration. …

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