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efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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agglomeration economies, a knowledge variable is assumed. Returning to a two location economy one is able to assess in graphical … terms the relation between distribution of knowledge and location of economic activities. …
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satisfy an indefinite range of wants and firms' incentive to utilize knowledge from past production experiences. We show that … firms endogenously form a number of distinguishable industries as accumulated knowledge induces them to agglomerate in the … technology space. Knowledge accumulation in existing industries reduces production costs, but, as the diminishing returns from …
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This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simulataneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...
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