Search Results - subject:"spatial clustering"

Geography and Intra-National Home Bias: U.S. Domestic Trade in 1949 and 2007

Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2013

This paper examines home bias in U.S. domestic trade in 1949 and 2007. We use a unique data set of 1949 carload waybill statistics produced by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and 2007 Commodity Flow Survey data. The results show that home bias was considerably smaller in 1949 than in 2007...

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A GIS (geographical information system)-based spatial data mining approach for optimal location and capacity planning of distributed biomass power generation facilities: A case study of Tumkur district, India

Kaundinya, Deepak Paramashivan; Balachandra, P.; … - In: Energy 52 (2013) C, pp. 77-88

This paper primarily intends to develop a GIS (geographical information system)-based data mining approach for optimally selecting the locations and determining installed capacities for setting up distributed biomass power generation systems in the context of decentralized energy planning for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010808107

Spatial clustering and market power: Evidence from the retail gasoline market

Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Weiss, Christoph - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 4, pp. 661-675

We investigate the impact of local market power and ‘spatial clustering’ on prices in the retail gasoline market. The … the causal effects of changes in spatial clustering on retail prices for a panel of gasoline stations. Our econometric … analysis suggests that spatial clustering of gasoline stations reduces the degree of competition between firms and increases …

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Spatial clusters of autism births and diagnoses point to contextual drivers of increased prevalence

Mazumdar, Soumya; Winter, Alix; Liu, Ka-Yuet; Bearman, Peter - In: Social Science & Medicine 95 (2013) C, pp. 87-96

Autism prevalence has risen dramatically over the past two decades in California. Although often suggested to have been crucial to the rise of autism, environmental and social contextual drivers of diagnosis have not been extensively examined. Identifying the spatial patterning of autism cases...

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Geography and Intra-National Home Bias: U. S. Domestic Trade in 1949 and 2007

Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper examines home bias in U. S. domestic trade in 1949 and 2007. We use a unique dataset of 1949 carload waybill statistics produced by the Interstate Commerce Commission and 2007 Commodity Flow Survey data. The results show that home bias was considerably smaller in 1949 than in 2007 and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084041

Persistencia de la segregación residencial y composición del capital humano por barrios en la ciudad de Cali

Vivas Pacheco, Harvy - In: Ensayos sobre política económica 31 (2013), pp. 121-155

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Spatial clustering and market power : evidence from the retail gasoline market

Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Weiss, Christoph R. - In: Regional science & urban economics 43 (2013) 4, pp. 661-675

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783745

Deutsche Innovationsregionen

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Türck, Matthias - 2005

Mit der fortschreitenden Ausrichtung der Regionalpolitik auf innovative Netzwerke gewinnt die Abgrenzung von Innovationsregionen - Regionen, die die Informationsverflechtungen im Raum widerspiegeln - an Bedeutung. Die räumlich-ökonometrische Schätzung einer aus der endogenen Wachstumstheorie...

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SPATIAL CLUSTERING, INEQUALITY AND INCOME CONVERGENCE

JANIKAS, Mark V.; REY, Sergio J. - In: Region et Developpement 21 (2005), pp. 45-64

This paper examines the relationship between spatial clustering and inequality at the county scale with overall state … inequality and spatial clustering and explore how a state's overall income level may be influenced by, or influence, these …

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Measuring spatial co-agglomeration patterns by extending ESDA techniques

Rusche, Karsten; Kies, Uwe; Schulte, Andreas - In: Review of Regional Research 31 (2011) 1, pp. 11-25

An emerging topic in spatial statistics is the analysis of agglomerations within a regional context. Often, these ‘spatial clusters’ are formed by effects of spatial co-agglomeration. This article introduces an extended bivariate Moran’s I statistic in a case study of German furniture...

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