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ASSESSING THE JOINT INFLUENCE OF ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF INCREASES IN THE BUILT-ENVIRONMENT: A STUDY OF TRENDS IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA [PDF]
This paper advances an empirical model assessing how, over both time and space, changes in land-use respond to changing economic and ecological conditions.
Iovanna, Rich, Vance, Colin
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Firms are known to commonly imitate peers' foreign investment location choices. We shed further light on this phenomenon by exploring the role of foreign locations' cultural tightness, which refers to the prevalence of social norms in a location and the tolerance for deviance from them.
Arjen H. L. Slangen +3 more
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Postwar trends in metropolitan employment growth: decentralization and deconcentration [PDF]
A key finding to emerge from this study is that the widely studied suburbanization or decentralization of employment and population is only part of the story of postwar urban evolution. Another important part of the story is a postwar trend of relatively
Gerald Carlino, Satyajit Chatterjee
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Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 403-428, March 2025.ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to exploit an innovative spatial econometric approach to map and study the evolving patterns of industrial districts (IDs). The procedure can be classified as a k‐means cluster‐wise regression procedure and is designed to detect homogeneous areas of subcontracting activity.
Jacopo Canello +3 more
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The Core‐Periphery Model Under Additively Separable Preferences
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 378-402, March 2025.ABSTRACT This paper reexamines Krugman's core‐periphery model by substituting his constant elasticity of substitution (CES) utility with a general additively separable utility that comprehensively captures the pro‐competitive effect while preserving the income effect.
Congcong Wang, Dao‐Zhi Zeng, Xiwei Zhu
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Density and disasters: economics of urban hazard risk [PDF]
Today, 370 million people live in cities in earthquake prone areas and 310 million in cities with high probability of tropical cyclones. By 2050, these numbers are likely to more than double. Mortality risk therefore is highly concentrated in many of the
Deichmann, Uwe, Lall, Somik V.
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Delinking social identity from entrenched stereotypes can reshape economic behavior. This study exploits China's hukou reform, which abolished the agricultural‐nonagricultural distinction and weakened the institutional foundation of rural‐urban identity, to assess its labor market impacts.
Ye Jiang, Yue Yin
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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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Location‐Based Accessibility and Innovation Performance
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the importance of local characteristics for innovation activities has been studied extensively, it remains largely unknown to which extent better transport‐based accessibilities facilitate innovation. This study builds on data from a Germany‐wide agent‐based transport model to derive local accessibilities for different modes of transport
Linda Bandelow, Hanna Hottenrott
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Flemish government launched its Spearhead Cluster (SHC) policy in 2017. The aim is to boost strategic sectors by setting up cluster initiatives which coordinate collaborative R&D initiatives. In this paper, we analyze whether becoming a member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the firm. We
Pierluigi Angelino +2 more
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