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Spatial inequality, geography and economic activity

Achten, Sandra; Lessmann, Christian - 2019

We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures...

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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development

Auer, Raphael A. - 2012

the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of geographic endowments on development …. -- growth ; institutions ; geography ; comparative development ; colonialism …

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Geography rules too! : Economic development and the geography of institutions

Bosker, Maarten (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2006

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Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Tarasov, Alexander - 2015 - This version: November 2015

The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that reflects a desire to unlock the welfare gains from regional economic integration. Yet, despite being one of the oldest government activities, the economic forces shaping the endogenous...

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The persistent effects of place-based policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2015 - This version: May 2015

of market access for economic development as identified in Redding and Sturm (2008) by about 45 percent. …

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Growth and the geography of knowledge

Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...

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Market potential and global growth over the long twentieth century

Jacks, David S.; Novy, Dennis - 2018

We examine the evolution of market potential and its role in driving economic growth over the long twentieth century … significantly deviates from the evolution of world GDP. Finally, using exogenous variation in trade-related distances to world …

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Econographics

Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018

We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....

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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic control

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in differences estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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