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Institutional architecture for financing Pan-Asian infrastructure connectivity

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2017

trade-driven growth through increased intraregional infrastructure connectivity and regional economic integration. In 1992 …, a pan-Asian transport connectivity was initiated through, Asian Highway Network and Trans-Asian Railways Network. In … 2015, an ambitious pan-Asian connectivity initiative, namely "One Belt, One Road" (ancient silk road) initiative has been …

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Borders, roads and the relocation of economic activity due to extreme Weather

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2020

national borders and road networks. We first explore how a potential disruption of connectivity through an international border …? This paper takes a granular approach to identify the role of connectivity on economic activity due to severe weather. We … affects local spillovers in case of a weather shock. Second, we use road infrastructure as a proxy for overall connectivity to …

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Forced displacement in history : some recent research

Becker, Sascha O. - 2022

Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes...

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Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline : theory and evidence from India

Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013

We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...

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Complex financial networks and systemic risk : a review

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Kirman, Alan P. - 2014

In this paper we review recent advances in financial economics in relation to the measurement of systemic risk. We start by reviewing studies that apply traditional measures of risk to financial institutions. However, the main focus of the review is on studies that use network analysis paying...

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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...

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The great divergence : a network approach

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge exchange. Knowledge in any country depends on the human capital of the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period...

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Matching on bipartite graphs

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2015 - This Version: September 2015

We study stable matchings on exogenously given or endogenously formed bipartite graphs that reflect constraints on matching. The effects of a change of the exogenously given graph (constraints) are investigated. Specifically, we examine to what extent individuals gain or lose from relaxing...

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The role of institutions and immigrant networks in firms' offshoring decisions

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms' potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and characteristics...

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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success

Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of … with larger co-ethnic networks are more likely to be employed at first, but have a lower probability of investing in human …

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