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Between Spilling Over and Boiling Down : Network-Mediated Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity and Productivity in European Regions

Cortinovis, Nicola - 2017

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge spillovers: trade, co-patenting and geographical proximity. Both our panel and instrumental variable estimations for European regions suggest that network relations are crucial sources...

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Long-Range Growth : Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links

Campante, Filipe R. - 2016

We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...

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Bones, Bacteria and Break Points : The Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of the Black Death and Long-Run Growth

Jedwab, Remi - 2016

city growth. We find evidence for aggregate convergence. On average, cities recovered their pre-plague population within …

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Re-evaluating RCTs with nightlights - an example from biometric smartcards in India

Stein, Merlin - 2021

Satellite data and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a powerful combination for analyzing causal effects beyond traditional survey-based indicators. The usage of remotely collected data for evaluating RCTs is cost-effective, objective and possible for anyone with treatment assignment data....

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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014

We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes at the level of a sector in a given U.S. state to...

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The Russian Regional Convergence Process : Where Does It Go?

Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2011

This paper investigates the income convergence among Russian regions in the period 1998-2006. It makes two major … contributions to rather extensive literature on the regional convergence in Russia. First, it identifies spatial regimes using the … exploratory spatial data analysis. Second, it examines the impact of spatial effects on the convergence process. Our results show …

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On the persistence of the China shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment,...

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Cities and Productivity : Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Quintero, Luis; Roberts, Mark - 2022

This paper explores the roles of agglomeration economies and aggregate human capital in accounting for productivity variations across sub-national areas in 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries. We find that, while there is a strong and statistically positive relationship between worker...

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The Deposits Channel of Aggregate Fluctuations

Kundu, Shohini; Park, Seongjin; Vats, Nishant - 2021

This paper presents a new mechanism through which the geography of bank deposits increases financial fragility. We document the within-bank geographic concentration of deposits -- 30% of bank deposits are concentrated in a single county. We combine this within-bank geographic concentration of...

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Banking networks and economic growth: from idiosyncratic shocks to aggregate fluctuations

Kundu, Shohini; Vats, Nishant - 2021

This paper explores the transmission of non-capital shocks through banking networks. We develop a methodology to construct non-capital (idiosyncratic) shocks, using labor productivity shocks to large firms. We document a change in the relationship between foreign idiosyncratic shocks and...

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