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Growth Effects of Spatial Redistribution Policies

Arcalean, Calin - 2012

Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...

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Regional dimensions of economic development in Iran: A new economic geography approach

Farmanesh, Amir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper presents a spatial analysis on regional dimensions of poverty and economic development across provinces of Iran. It offers the first ever estimation made in developing countries using this strand of "New Economic Geography" (NEG) models and provides a comparison of the results between...

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Trade Liberalization and the Geography of Production: Agglomeration, Concentration and Dispersal in Indonesia’s Manufacturing Industry

Sjöberg, Örjan; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

The effect of trade liberalization on the spatial concentration of economic activities is not straightforward. It has, on the one hand been widely argued that protectionism increase spatial concentration when firms locate close to the main domestic markets, but it has also been argued that trade...

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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 138-153

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...

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A Spatial Perspective over the Creative Economy of the Eastern Europe

Sorin, Mazilu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 356-360

The objective of this paper is to provide a spatial distribution of creative economy in European Union, in 2011. For this purpose, we measure creative economy by proposing a five dimensions index. The results are displayed in the Creative Economy Map of EU. The further discussions highlight the...

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Ethnic Inequality

Alesina, Alberto; Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within … construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large sample of countries and show that the latter is strongly inversely related … portion of ethnic inequality contributing to its persistence over time. Third, exploiting across-district within …

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Evaluierung der Ergebnisse der Neuausrichtung der Wirtschaftsförderung des Landes Brandenburg

Baum, Katja; Ziegenbalg, Björn - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 18 (2011) 01, pp. 23-32

Mit der Neuausrichtung der Wirtschaftsförderung im Land Brandenburg im Jahr 2005 wurde eine stärkere regionale und sektorale Fokussierung der Wirtschaftsförderung durchgesetzt. Die nunmehr 14 förder intensiven Branchenkompetenzfelder (BKF) verfügen in Brandenburg über besondere...

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Nueva fase de desarrollo y determinantes de la acción estatal frente a la crisis del neoliberalismo: hacia una visión socioespacial.

Ordóñez, Sergio - In: Economía: teoría y práctica 41 (2014) 2, pp. 127-161

Este trabajo contribuye a la discusión orientada a superar las insuficiencias de la literatura sobre el Estado y su accionar en la reproducción y el desarrollo económico, a la luz de la emergencia de una nueva fase de desarrollo del capitalismo, o capitalismo del conocimiento, y de la actual...

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Temperate climate - Innovative outputs nexus

Coccia M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

Technological change is a vital human activity that interacts with geographic factors and environment. The purpose of the study here is to analyse the relationship between geo-climate zones of the globe and technological outputs in order to detect favourable areas that spur higher technological...

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The geographic dimensions of institutions

Bhupatiraju S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

In this paper we examine the role of institutions relative to economic performance, absolute geography and financial performance of a country. In order to do this, we use the spatial principal component analysis and a spatial canonical correlation analysis to obtain multi-dimensional measure of...

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