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Uneven domestic tourism demand in times of pandemic
Tourism Economics, 2022 This study investigates the short-run impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of domestic overnight stays at the regional level in the summer season 2020.
M. Falk, Eva Hagsten, Xiang Lin
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Trade and Urbanization: Evidence from Hungary
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022 I study how trade affects urbanization and real income. To this end, I exploit large-scale exogenous changes in trade stemming from the redrawing of Hungary’s borders after the First World War.
D. Nagy
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The American Economic Review, 2021 US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited with helping to stabilize regional economies.
Steven Pennings
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Trade, Migration, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis of China
The American Economic Review, 2019 We study how goods- and labor-market frictions affect aggregate labor productivity in China. Combining unique data with a general equilibrium model of internal and international trade, and migration across regions and sectors, we quantify the magnitude ...
Trevor Tombe, Xiaodong Zhu
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Are Credit Markets Still Local? Evidence from Bank Branch Closings
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 This paper studies whether distance shapes credit allocation by estimating the impact of bank branch closings during the 2000s on local access to credit. To generate plausibly exogenous variation in the incidence of closings, I use an instrument based on
Hoai-Luu Q. Nguyen
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Decentralized Environmental Regulation with Agglomeration Forces
Business and Entrepreneurship Journal, 2022 Convention, in the setting of interjurisdictional economic competition, envisions a race-to-the-bottom when decentralized jurisdictions, in their eagerness to attract commerce, introduce policies to reduce business costs in the form of tax structures ...
Mitch Kunce
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What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics?
Journal of Economic Literature, 2017 Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local.
S. Proost, Jacques-François Thisse
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Co-location of Formal and Informal Manufacturing and Firm’s Performance: Evidence from India
The Indian Economic Journal, 2021 This study analyses the impact of co-location between formal and informal manufacturing sectors on plant-level productivity. We employ a unique data obtained by merging plant-level data from Annual Survey of Industries (ASI 2011–2012) and Survey of ...
R. Ramachandran, Subash Sasidharan
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Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018 Many countries shift substantial public resources across jurisdictions to mitigate spatial economic disparities. We use a general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, labor mobility, and costly trade to carve out the aggregate implications
Marcel Henkel +2 more
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The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015 Using a natural experiment, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. The spatial regression discontinuity design controls for continuous local agglomeration externalities, so we attribute an important ...
Maximilian von Ehrlich, Tobias Seidel
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