Showing 1 - 10 of 141
-regional spillovers. The federal government aims to correct for these inefficiencies using a transfer system. If the regional governments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994863
As cities increasingly become centers of economic growth and innovation, there is a need to understand their inner workings and organization in greater detail. We use ge-coded firm-level panel data at the sub-city level to assess the long-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657494
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012512411
-regional spillovers. The federal government aims to correct for these inefficiencies using a transfer system. If the regional governments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140904
Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between individual strategic behavior and collective outcome. What has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002279
Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in particular, are essential for explaining a number of empirical regularities about growth and development. Foremost among these is that many countries appear to share a common long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023776
capital spillovers can in theory increase aggregate productivity over and above the direct effect of human capital on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024011
This paper studies externalities of nationally determined cost-sharing systems, in particular coinsurance rates (patients pay a percentage of the price), under pharmaceutical parallel trade in a two-country model with a vertical distributor relationship. Parallel trade generates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213026
We use changes in Brazil s tax on capital inflows from 2006 to 2011 to test for direct portfolio effects and externalities from capital controls on investor portfolios. The analysis is structured based on information from investor interviews. We find that an increase in Brazil s tax on foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341669
This paper studies externalities of nationally determined cost-sharing systems, in particular coinsurance rates (patients pay a percentage of the price), under pharmaceutical parallel trade, i.e. trade outside the manufacturer's authorized distribution channel, in a two-country model with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343629