Search Results - subject:"NORTH AMERICA"

Global and regional business cycles : shocks and propagations

Thorsrud, Leif Anders - 2013

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The Circulation of Ideas Across Academic Communities : When Locals Re-Import Exported Ideas

Battilana, Julie - 2013

articles more likely to have impact in North America than others. To set the stage for better understanding the role of …

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Tourism in the Americas – 2013 Edition

2013

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Cross-regional comparison of trade integration : the case of services

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2013

higher than in Europe and North America; (ii) in Asia, the regional bias of services trade is higher than that of goods trade …, which is in sharp contrast to Europe and North America, where the regional bias of goods trade is higher than that of …In this paper, we will examine the level of services trade integration in Asia in comparison with Europe and North …

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Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors

Agrawal, Ajay - 2013

We examine how the spatial and social proximity of inventors affects knowledge flows, focusing especially on how the two forms of proximity interact. We develop a knowledge flow production function (KFPF) as a flexible tool for modeling access to knowledge and show that the optimal spatial...

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A Sensible Strategy for Renewable Electrical Energy in North America

Angevine, Gerry - 2013

suggest that at least 80% of the net increase in electric generation capacity in North America during the present decade will … to cost.•Consequently, electricity consumers in North America face much higher electricity costs in the future. The …

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Superstition in the Housing Market

Fortin, Nicole Marie - 2013

We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...

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