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We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures...
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Raumbezogene Aspekte der Standortfrage von Flughäfen -- Regionalökonomische Wirkungen des Luftverkehrs -- Kartografische Darstellungen zur Erreichbarkeit von Flughäfen -- Handlungsempfehlungen für optimale Flughafenstandorte
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This chapter provides a comprehensive view on the field of New Economic Geography (NEG). It starts by describing the background in adjacent fields of economics which made the surge of NEG possible. It lays out the necessary ingredients and fundamental forces at work that define any NEG framework...
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principles of regional science. Focusing on location theory, spatial dynamics and regional evolution theory, it stresses that the … case studies, the content is general and universal rather than specific. Beginning with location theory - the basis of …. For example, it discusses the location theory of the tourism industry and analyzes issues of facility location and R …
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Any interesting model of economic geography must involve a tension between "centripetal" forces that tend to produce agglomerations and "centrifugal" forces that tend to pull them apart. This paper explores one such model, and shows that the model links together a number of themes in the...
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