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, 2018 The Netherlands ranks fourth on the list of the world’s most competitive economies, after Switzerland, the United States of America and Singapore, and directly followed by Germany (5). This index of the Global Competitiveness Report 2016–2017 is based on dozens of criteria, arranged in 12 ‘pillars’.
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Economic Geography - Key Concepts [PDF]
Economic geography can help us understand why people and firms choose to locate where they do, whether these are good choices from a broader efficiency/resource allocation viewpoint, and what the implications of these choices are for the distribution of ...
Sarah Box
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Geography, Health, and Demo-Economic Development [PDF]
This paper investigates the interactive impact of subsistence consumption and child mortality on fertility choice and child expenditure. It offers an explanation for why mankind multiplies at higher rates at geographically unfavorable, tropical locations.
Holger Strulik
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Testing Nonlinear New Economic Geography Models [PDF]
We test a New Economic Geography (NEG) model for U.S. counties, employing a new strategy that allows us to bring the full NEG model to the data, and to assess selected elements of this model separately. We find no empirical support for the full NEG model.
Bode, Eckhardt, Mutl, Jan
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The underexplored effects of economic transition on intellectual property rights protection: An economic geography perspective. [PDF]
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Globalization in History: A Geographical Perspective [PDF]
This paper argues that a geographical perspectie is fundamental to understanding comparative economic development in the context of globalization. Central to this view is the role of agglomeration in productivity performance; size and location matter ...
Anthony J. Venables, Nicholas Crafts
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Search Unemployment and New Economic Geography [PDF]
This paper develops a general equilibrium geographical economics model which uses matching frictions on the labor market to generate regional unemployment disparities alongside the usual core-periphery pattern of industrial agglomeration.
vom Berge, Philipp
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Do Migrants Follow Market Potentials? An Estimation of a New Economic Geography Model [PDF]
New Economic Geography models describe a cumulative process of spatial agglomeration: Firms tend to cluster in locations with good access to demand, and similarly, workers are drawn to regions where market potential is high because the price index is ...
Matthieu Crozet
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The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography [PDF]
This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to economic geography. We argue that the goal is not only to utilise the concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics (and evolutionary thinking more broadly) to ...
Ron Boschma, Ron Martin
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Increasing Returns in a Standard Tax Competition Model [PDF]
The standard tax competition literature predicts a race to the bottom in capital tax rates as capital mobility increases. Recently, the very different modeling framework of the new economic geography literature has produced the contrasting result that ...
Signe Krogstrup
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