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"Robin Hook": the developmental effects of Somali piracy

Shortland, Anja - 2011 - This draft: September 2011

Naval counter-piracy measures off Somalia have failed to change the incentives for pirates, raising calls for land-based approaches that may involve replacing piracy as a source of income. This paper evaluates the effects of piracy on the Somali economy to establish which (domestic) groups...

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Internet-based hedonic indices of rents and prices for flats : example of Berlin

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Mense, Andreas - 2012

In this paper, we suggest to estimate the home rents and prices in German regions/cities using the data from Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. Given the richness of information contained in the ads, we are able to construct the quality-adjusted rent and price indices using the...

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Does quality make a difference? : Employment effects of high- and low-quality start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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New business formation and regional development : a survey and assessment of the evidence

Fritsch, Michael - 2011

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the effect of new business formation on regional development. After a brief sketch of the origins of research on this issue, the main results of different lines of inquiry are discussed. Main issues are the development of start-up cohorts,...

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Are geese flying by themselves inside China? : An LSTR-SEM approach to income convergence of Chinese counties

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Girardin, Eric - 2011

In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the … spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by … model the estimated convergence rate is 0.8% for unconditional regression and 1.7% for condtional regression, the …

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Do regions with entrepreneurial neighbors perform better? : A spatial econometric approach for German regions

Pijnenburg, Katharina; Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2011

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...

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Measuring regional inequality by internet car price advertisements : evidence for Germany

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2010

We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the...

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Urbanisation and green growth in China

2013

This working paper assesses national policy and governance mechanisms that can influence green growth in Chinese cities. It applies the OECD conceptual framework for urban green growth to examine the potential challenges and opportunities for increasing economic growth through reducing the...

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Cities and green growth : the case of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area

2013

This working paper assesses opportunities and policies for green growth in the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area. It first examines the Chicago metro-region's economic and environmental performance and potential constraints to regional growth, and identifies emerging regional specialisations...

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Urban-to-rural population growth linkages : evidence from OECD TL3 regions

Veneri, Paolo; Ruiz, Vicente - 2013

The objective of this paper is to better understand how the population growth rates of rural regions are affected by their closeness to urban regions and by the economic performance of the latter. By means of a cross-sectional analysis of OECD TL3 regions, it identifies the growth spillover...

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