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university outputs and in the thorough peer-group selection process that accounts for high diversity in subject profiles. More …
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New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...
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demonstrates that remote sensing data can provide an effective way to model local economic development also in Europe, where no …
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This study investigates the economic impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Exploiting the staggered timing of the construction in a difference-in-differences framework, we analyze the effect of Chinese-built and financed stadiums on local economic development. Employing...
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We study the impact of improved rail access on entrepreneurship rates in England and Wales. We use data from the Census … support local entrepreneurship and economic activity, contributing to regional development and reducing economic inequality. …
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. "Harvard University" is the best performing institution (in all years) followed by many other institutions from Northern … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency … scores, followed by Northern America and Western Europe. While many results of this study are scarcely surprising, it is the …
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The extensive literature on university graduates’ regional mobility highlights the importance of early mobility but is … mobility across labour market regions. The data permit a novel identification strategy that uses the distance to university as … agglomeration in a university graduate survey. We find that early mobility leads to a sizable increase in later labour mobility …
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Government investment in university research results in greater output and impact. To better capture economic benefits … stemming from university research, governments have developed funding programs specifically targeting university …-industry collaboration. However, little is known about the success of university-industry targeted (U-I targeted) grants. In this study we …
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An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
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This paper investigates the economic costs of the recent United Nations sanctions on North Korea. Exploiting a novel data set on North Korean firms, we construct measures of regional exposure to export and intermediate input sanctions and show that trade sanctions cause sharp declines in local...
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