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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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Regional economic forecasting : state-of-the-art methodology and future challenge

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2014

Over the last decade, the topic of regional economic forecasting has become increasingly prevalent in academic literature. The most striking problem in this context is data availability at a regional level. However, considerable methodological improvements have been made to address this problem....

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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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Fiscal competition, convergence and agglomeration

Fenge, Robert (contributor); … - 2007

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Adding geography to the new economic geography

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

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Fiscal transfers in the spatial economy

Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias; Südekum, Jens - 2018

implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for Germany, we find that it indeed delivers smaller spatial economic …

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Do governments tax agglomeration rents?

Koh, Hyun-Ju; Riedel, Nadine - 2010

Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on municipal tax setting behavior. The analysis exploits a rich data source on the population of German firms to construct detailed measures for the communities' agglomeration...

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Creating firms for a new century : determinants of firm creation around 1900

Baten, Jörg - 2003

Southwest Germany around 1900. Agglomeration effects and earlier firm creations stimulate current firm creation. In addition, a …

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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

-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the old border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …

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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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