The gravity literature has focused on distance, borders and contiguity to measure geography's impact on trade. We add value to this literature in terms of data, method and assessment of effects. First, we expand existing geographical databases by adding topographical features. We supply novel...

Die Ursprünge des Forschenden Lernens liegen bereits Jahrhunderte zurück. Jedoch wurde das Konzept, Studierende in die Forschung an Universitäten einzubinden und sie "selber denken zu lassen" lange Zeit nicht als zielführend angesehen. Massenuniversitäten zielten auf frontale,...

The fingerprint of geography -- Climate, crops, and capital -- Germs, groups and gender -- Accursed are the blessed -- The wrath of nature -- Determinism versus determination -- On the geographic origins -- Sand or grease -- Nature's democratic dividend -- Elixir or people's opium -- In (trust)...

"Tourism is an astonishingly complex phenomenon that is becoming an ever-greater part of life in today's global world. This clear and engaging text introduces students to this vast and diverse subject through the lens of geography, the only field with the breadth to consider all of the aspects,...

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...

We provide new evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. To do so, we combine temporal variation in international drug prices with new data on spatial variation in opium suitability to examine the effect of opium profitability on conflict in Afghanistan....

Wie kann man Städte effektiv und schnell klimafreundlich umgestalten? Der Wissensaustausch zwischen Kommunen sowie die Nachahmung bewährter Praktiken gilt als Schlüssel zur »grünen Transformation«. Am Beispiel der Regierungstechnologie »Best Practice« stellt Nanja Nagorny-Koring den weit...

"Geofusion is an exciting journey around the main issues of the 21st century. This is a book with roadmaps that show the complexity of our world, the interconnections between places, people, schools of thoughts, and disciplines. Starting with a geographical frame of reference, readers are taken...

African governments are increasingly confronted with new forms of political violence. The situation is particularly worrying in the Sahara-Sahel where violence is on the rise. This degrading security situation has prompted African countries and their partners to intervene militarily to stabilise...

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...

Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component analysis. When we try to identify their main...

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...

Die geographische Nähe ostdeutscher Kreise zu Westdeutschland wirkt sich positiv auf deren regionale ökonomische Aktivität aus. Dies zeigt eine Analyse der Anzahl der Betriebsgründungen und der Beschäftigungsentwicklung seit 1995. Dieser Befund ist insbesondere im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe...

This paper contributes to the understanding of the international financial linkages created by US banks by looking at the geographical composition and structure of the balance sheet of foreign branches. The empirical investigation, which is based on a novel dataset containing balance sheet...

This study employs the hedonic property price method to analyze the flood risk effect on a rich set of data. The analysis is carried out on Hungary, but as the control variables are extremely elaborated, our results have general importance. The paper finds a significant reduction in housing...

This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using panel data methods that allow one to account for...

Financial geography is concerned with the roles of finance, money and markets in the restructuring of contemporary capitalism, how these changes have uneven impacts across space. Studies focus on the ways in which space and place are mobilized in shaping financial decisions, allocation of...

Companies routinely file bankruptcy cases in venues that have no meaningful connection to the company, its operations, or its stakeholders. This practice (1) divorces bankruptcy and venue from their ties to location; (2) disrupts the fundamental balance underlying the Bankruptcy Code by shifting...

We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by the local communities where firms' headquarters are located induces CEOs to refrain from dismissing...

This paper tests whether the so-called ‘reach of the market’ helps to explain ‘why Europe’ and ‘why north-western Europe’. By looking at grain markets from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, this study concludes that the process of commodity market integration...