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Geography of the world economy
Matsuyama, Kiminori - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001365988
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The geography of conflict in North and West Africa
Trémolières, Marie; Walther, Olivier J.; Radil, Steven M. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226704
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Testing local versions of correlation coefficients
Kalogirou, Stamatis - 2010
The aim of this paper is to define and test local versions of standard correlation coefficients in statistical analysis. This research is motivated by the increasing number of applications using local versions of exploratory and explanatory spatial data analysis methods. A common example of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171778
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German geographical research on Japan
Flüchter, Winfried - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486117
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Convergence, geography and technology
Maurseth, Per Botolf - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001556178
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On the geographic allocation of open source software activities
Engelhardt, Sebastian v.; Freytag, Andreas; Schulz, … - 2010
Open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. OSS is developed by a "community" consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how global the OSS community actually is, i.e. analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944041
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Mapping marginality hotspots : geographical targeting for poverty reduction
Graw, Valerie; Ladenburger, Christine - 2012
This mapping approach aims to make the marginalized and poor visible by identifying areas with difficult biophysical and socio-economic conditions. Mapping using different data sources and data types gives deeper insight into possible causal interlinkages and offers the opportunity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209974
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The Topography of Nations
Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How does the interplay of geography and political-economic forces affect the shape of nations? This paper presents a … quantitative framework for characterizing the equilibrium evolution of national boundaries in a world with a rich geography. The … simple algorithm for its calculation. When combined with detailed spatial geography data from Europe, the equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421232
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Spatial patterns and size distributions of cities
Hsu, Wen-Tai; Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - 2014
City size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across many countries. One popular explanation for such power-law regularities is in terms of random growth processes, where power laws arise asymptotically from the assumption of iid growth rates among all cities within a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011505811
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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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