The debate on Russia’s innovation performance has paid little attention to the role of geography. This paper addresses … performance, shedding light on the importance of long-term path dependency in the Russian geography of innovation. …

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a …

-spatial data on geography, building height and footprints with Norwegian register data. Our unit of observation are neighborhoods … land restrictions to alter urban density within parts of cities. Moreover, we show that geography is another important …