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Regional development goals and distributive politics in the allocation of Turkey?s central investments: socioeconomic criteria, parties and legislators? personal networks

Luca, Davide - European Regional Science Association - 2013

A growing body of theoretical contributions and empirical studies has explored how the spatial distribution of public resources and governmental transfers is likely to be driven by efficiency and equity, as well as by political considerations. This article applies this line of research to...

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Intra-regional Disparity and Municipal Merger: Case Study in Fukuoka Prefecture

Sakamoto, Hiroshi - European Regional Science Association - 2013

industrial structure. It is divided into 8 industries (Agriculture, Manufacture, Construction, Trade, Service, Other private …

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Municipal sizes and municipal restructuring in Japan

Nakagawa, Kuninori - European Regional Science Association - 2014

In this article, we quantitatively analyze changes in the size distribution of municipal jurisdictions in Japan by using their rank-size distribution to capture the change. In Japan, the central government sometimes enacts large-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of...

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Russian Regions: Foreign Trade and Economic Development

Sherov-Ignatyev, Vladimir - European Regional Science Association - 2013

regions vary by their involvement in international trade and by vulnerability to external shocks. Russian economy is becoming … fully joined the World trade organization. The goal of the current study is to examine the diversity of Russian regions and … to assess the role of external trade in local economic development across Russia. We specially discuss the probable …

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Spatial evolution of economic activity in Russia: New economic geography perspective

Kolomak, Evgeniya - European Regional Science Association - 2014

infrastructure, radical decreases in trade cost and the elimination of regional institutional barriers, as well as an active social …

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Impacts of International Trade and Logistics Industry on Urban Land Use in Mersin

zorlu, fikret - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The progress in logistics industry is highly dependent upon international and domestic trade performance of a city. In … specific industry at regional and local scale. This study deals with logistics industry, its relation with international trade …). This study deals with the role of international trade and logistics industry on urban land use formation in Mersin, Turkey …

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Creative economy policy in developing countries: the case of Indonesia

Fahmi, Fikri Zul - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper elaborates on how the global discourse on creative economy is interpreted in developing countries. We accomplish this by examining how the discourse has been institutionalized in several Indonesian cities. As an effect of decentralization, localities attempt to become a winner among...

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Coherence of the EU cohesion policy and national regional policy: the case of the Czech Republic

Novosák, Jiøí - European Regional Science Association - 2014

There is a high research and political interest in regional disparities now. Regional disparities are at the heart of prominent theories of regional development as well as of the ambitious project of European integration. Moreover, regional policies at various spatial levels are formulated in...

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THE EFFECT ON FIRMS? PRODUCTIVITY OF ACCESSIBILITY. THE SPANISH MANUFACTURING SECTOR

Martín-Barroso, David; Núñez, Juan A.; Velázquez, … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in their measurement, and computing real distances or...

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Sequential city growth in the US: Does age matter?

Sánchez-Vidal, María; González-Val, Rafael; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...

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