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Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity

Pflüger, Michael - 2016

The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...

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Local Employment Growth in West Germany : A Dynamic Panel Approach

Blien, Uwe; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, Katja - 2021

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...

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Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Madaleno, Margarida - 2018

A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...

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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution : A Cge Analysis of Three EU Regions

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009

small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …. They also suggest that remote regions are highly vulnerable to the out-migration of skilled workers ('brain-drain') while …

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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth : Evidence from U.S. Counties

Hammond, George W. - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...

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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2015

Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different … dominations that ruled Italian regions between the 16th and 17th century and over seven hundred years before the creation of the … administration quality and show that the latter makes a difference to the economic performance of regions. Overall, our analysis …

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Criscuolo, Chiara - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

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Spatial Frictions

Behrens, Kristian - 2013

The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...

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On Pitchforks and Tomahawks

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2021

The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational hysteresis. We study this seminal model with CES instead of Cobb-Douglas upper tier preferences. This small generalization suffices to change these stark implications. For a wide...

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Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2021

Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...

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