Firm Birth and Death in U.S. Manufacturing: A Regional Adjustment Model [PDF]
Attracting manufacturing investment is a frequently used rural development policy. Previous research in the location literature has informed policymakers which factors are most important for attracting new firm investment.
Brown, Jason P. +2 more
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On the Origins of Land Use Regulations: Theory and Evidence from US Metro Areas [PDF]
We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of a political economy game between owners of developed and owners of undeveloped land. Land use constraints benefit the former group (via increasing property prices) but hurt the latter (via ...
Christian A. L. Hilber +1 more
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Product Quality and Market Size [PDF]
Recent literature notes that when quality is produced with fixed costs, a high quality firm can undercut its rival's prices and may find it profitable to invest more in quality as market size grows large.
Joel Waldfogel, Steven Berry
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A dynamic QCA of new quality productivity driving high quality economic development in the yellow river basin. [PDF]
Sci RepShi Y, Liu X, Zhang J.
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Discordant City Employment Cycles [PDF]
The national economy is often described as having a business cycle over which aggregate output enters and exits distinct expansion and recession phases. Analogously, national employment cycles in and out of its own expansion and contraction phases, which
Howard Wall +2 more
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From local production to global consumption: Assessing the carbon footprints of Chinese cities in global value chains. [PDF]
PNAS NexusWang S, Liang J, Shan Y, Fang C, Bai X.
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Information Technology in Rural Areas: Waiting for the Revolution [PDF]
This report tracks recent state-level employment changes in a set of 35 industries that research suggests have been materially affected by advances in information technologies.
Eathington, Liesl, Swenson, David A.
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Impact of Spatial structure of urban agglomerations on green innovation in China. [PDF]
Sci RepDong S, Liu K.
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What explains the quantity and quality of local inventive activity? [PDF]
The authors geocode a data set of patents and their citation counts, including citations from abroad. This allows them to examine both the quantity and quality of local inventions. They also refine their data on local academic R&D to explore effects from
Gerald Carlino, Robert Hunt
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The spatiotemporal distribution characteristics and influencing factors of ancient tombs in China: A study on the conservation of ancient tombs in China. [PDF]
PLoS OneMa Q +6 more
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