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Adding geography to the new economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2007

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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000

In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves away from centres of economic activity, we investigate...

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Identifying agglomeration shadows : long-run evidence from ancient ports

Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2024

We examine “agglomeration shadows” that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and \wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...

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Biodiversity and geography

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Urban specialisation : from sectoral to functional

Antoine, Antoine; Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony - 2021

The comparative advantage of many cities is based on their efficiency in the production of "functions", e.g., business services such as finance, law, engineering, or similar functions that are used by firms in a wide range of sectors. Firms that use these functions may choose to source them...

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Innovation and spillovers : evidence from European regions

Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - 2000

takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a production function of innovation for European regions … European regions' innovative activity is better represented by a model as Jones (1995) than by one as Romer (1990). Knowledge … spillovers could be due to the similar technological specialization of close regions, as we find significant spillovers also in …

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Local economic growth and infant mortality

Kammerlander, Andreas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2021

We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we...

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The impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" on local economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lindlacher, Valentin; Pirich, Gustav - 2024

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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Trade, integration, and interregional inequality

Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: April 08, 2014

Gennaioli et al.'s (2013) cross-country data set, which covers 110 countries (1569 sub-national regions) for the year 2005, and … the panel data set of Lessmann (2014), which covers 56 countries (835 sub-national regions) for the period 1980-2009. The …

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