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Does manure management regulation work against agglomeration economies? Evidence from French hog production

Gaigné, Carl; Le Gallo, Julie; Larue, Solène; … - 2010

The well-known rise in the geographical concentration of hog production suggests the presence of agglomeration economies related to spatial spillovers and inter-dependencies among industries. In this paper, we examine whether manure management regulation restricting manure application per acre...

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A structural analysis on Gravity of Trade regarding the possibility to remove distance from the model

Metulini, Rodolfo - 2013

The Gravity Model is the workhorse for empirical studies in International Economies and it is commonly used in explaining the trade flow between countries. Recently, several studies have showed the importance of taking into account the spatial effect. The standard procedure until now was to...

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Spatial gravity models for international trade: a panel analysis among OECD countries

Metulini, Rodolfo - 2013

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Sugar cane burning and human health: An analysis using spatial difference in difference

Chagas, Andre; Almeida, Alex; Azzoni, Carlos - 2013

The production of ethanol and sugar from sugar cane has sharply increased for the last 20 years. If there are overall incentives to substitute the consumption of fossil fuels by biofuels, the increase of production and the expansion of new cultivated areas of sugar cane have eventually an impact...

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Criminality spread: A "boomerang effect" of public transport improvements?

Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - 2013

This paper aims to reveal the importance of public transport policies in the evolution of crime configuration and so, the vital responsibility of urban transports and criminality in social sprawl, entrepreneurial configuration and social structure on a city. Public transport policies have an...

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Personal Indebtedness, Community Characteristics And Theft Crime

Mcintyre, Stuart - 2013

Becker (1968) and Stigler (1970) provide the germinal works for an economic analysis of crime. The approach they outlined has been utilised to consider the response of crime rates to a range of economic, criminal and socioeconomic factors. Until recently however this did not extend to a...

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The Spatial Convergence of Knowledge in Portugal

Guerreiro, Gertrudes; Caleiro, António - 2015

paper we carry out as the main objective to analyse the spatial convergence of knowledge through the study of the evolution … convergence spatial) is studied from the viewpoint of the growth of per capita GDP. However, since human capital is a key factor … convergence of knowledge will be reflected in a spatial convergence in terms of economic growth, or even of unemployment rates …

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A spatial Diff-in-Diff analysis of the impact of sugarcane producion on respiratory diseases

Chagas, Andre; Azzoni, Carlos; Almeida, Alexandre - 2015

The production of ethanol and sugar from sugarcane has sharply increased in Brazil in the last 20 years, in a process of substitution of biofuel for fossil fuels. The increase in the production and the expansion of the cultivated area might have impacts on human health and employment, especially...

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