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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

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The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015

This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...

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Estimating Border Effects: The Impact of Spatial Aggregation

Coughlin, Cletus C.; Novy, Dennis - 2016

Trade data are typically reported at the level of regions or countries and are therefore aggregates across space. In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity of standard gravity estimation to spatial aggregation. We build a model in which initially symmetric micro regions are combined to form...

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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development

Auer, Raphael A. - 2012

, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a …

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Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments

Gumpert, Anna; Steimer, Henrike; Antoni, Manfred - 2018

How do geographic frictions affect firm organization? We show theoretically and empirically that geographic frictions increase the use of middle managers in multi-establishment firms. In our model, we assume that the time of the CEO of a firm is a resource of limited supply that is shared among...

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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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Landlockedness and Economic Development: Analyzing Subnational Panel Data and Exploring Mechanisms

Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; Stadelmann, David - 2017

This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within-country-time variation only (e.g., regional variation...

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The Geographical Determinants of Within-City Heterogeneity in Urban Density

Krause, Melanie; Seidel, André - 2020

-spatial data on geography, building height and footprints with Norwegian register data. Our unit of observation are neighborhoods … land restrictions to alter urban density within parts of cities. Moreover, we show that geography is another important …

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Barriers to Global Capital Allocation

Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021

We quantify the impact of barriers to international investment, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous investors and imperfect capital mobility. Our model yields a gravity equation for bilateral foreign asset positions. We estimate this gravity equation...

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Information and Communication Technology and Firm Geographic Expansion

Jiang, Xian - 2023

This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) affects the firm geographic organization and its implications on aggregate efficiency. ICT can widen firms' geographic span of control by reducing their internal communication costs. Empirical evidence from confidential US...

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