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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of …

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Economic Geography and International Inequality

Redding, Stephen J.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper estimates a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on per capita income, bilateral trade, and the relative price of manufacturing goods. More than 70% of the variation in per capita income can be explained by the geography of access to markets and to sources...

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Geography and Export Performance: External Market Access and Internal Supply Capacity

Redding, Stephen J.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper investigates the determinants of countries’ export performance looking in particular at the role of international product market linkages. We begin with a novel decomposition of the growth in countries’ exports into the contribution from increases in external demand and from...

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Agglomeration and the Location of Innovative Activity

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Only a few years ago the conventional wisdom predicted that globalization would render the demise of the region as a meaningful unit of economic analysis. Yet the obsession of policy-makers around the globe to 'create the next Silicon Valley' reveals the increased importance of geographic...

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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000

Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using 3,000 verbs from around 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro-data from the United States from 1880-2000, we find an increase in the employment share...

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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our … urbanization observed during the 18th and 19th centuries. …

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Machines as Engines of Growth

Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks … unboundedly. The mechanism that drives growth is the feedback between industrialization and wages. High wages are incentives to … use machines and industrialize, while industrialization raises wages. The model shows that industrialization and growth …

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Telecommunications Infrastructure And Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach

Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Waverman, Leonard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper investigates how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. This issue is important and has received considerable attention in the popular press concerning the creation of the 'information superhighway' and its potential impacts on the economy. We use evidence from 21...

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Transport Costs, Intermediate Goods and Localized Growth

Walz, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper presents a dynamic, two-region general equilibrium model in which inter-regional production and trade patterns are endogenously determined. Localized growth stems from geographical concentration of an industrial sector exhibiting permanent productivity increases. Geographical...

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