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Income Inequality and Oligarchs in Russian Regions : A Note

Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2017

We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path towards market economy, among other factors, gave rise to...

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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality

Hirte, Georg - 2014

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...

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State Tax Differentials, Cross-Border Commuting, and Commuting Times in Multi-State Metropolitan Areas

Agrawal, David R. - 2014

We examine the effects of differences in income tax rates on commuting times within multi-state MSAs. Our theoretical … holding fixed other characteristics. We identify large effects on commuting times for affluent households and homeowners in …

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A Tale of Two Tails : Commuting and the Fuel Price Response in Driving

Gillingham, Kenneth - 2018

Pricing greenhouse gases is widely understood as the most efficient approach for mitigating climate change, yet distributional effects hamper political acceptance. These distributional effects are especially important in transport, the fastest growing sector for greenhouse gas emissions. Using...

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Subsidies for Intracity and Intercity Commuting

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2021

This paper analyzes subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting in an urban economics framework with two cities and … agglomeration externalities, where workers may commute within and between cities. First, commuting subsidies serve to internalize … agglomeration externalities: Intracity commuting subsidies give incentives to move to the larger city and intercity commuting …

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Commuting Subsidies With Two Transport Modes

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2021

We study a simple model of commuting subsidies with two transport modes. City residents choose where to live and which …

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A Leverage Theory of Tying in Two-Sided Markets

Choi, Jay Pil - 2016

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the...

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Liberation Technology : Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa

Manacorda, Marco - 2016

Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...

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Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions : Evidence from Mobile Phone Data

Büchel, Konstantin - 2017

Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...

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Distance, Globalization, and International Trade

Borchert, Ingo - 2017

For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the effects of proximity and regional trade agreements...

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