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What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics?
Journal of Economic Literature, 2019 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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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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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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The Political Geography of Cities
Social Science Research NetworkWe study the link between regional capitals and urban development. We exploit new global data on hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018 to estimate the capital city premium.
Richard Bluhm +2 more
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Entry, Exit, and Market Structure in a Changing Climate
Social Science Research NetworkClimate change has long run effects on the size and composition of a country’s corporate sector. Using administrative data on the universe of Italian firms, we find that an increase in the incidence of very hot days over a multiyear period persistently ...
M. Cascarano +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 ...
M. von Ehrlich, T. Seidel
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Social Science Research Network, 2021 Structural transformation is a key indicator of economic development. This paper reconstructs and examines spatial patterns of the occupational structure in pre-unification Italy, combining direct observations and urbanization rates.
David Chilosi, Carlo Ciccarelli
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Was India's Demonetization Redistributive? Insights from Satellites and Surveys.
Social Science Research Network, 2020 On November 8, 2016, the Indian government abruptly demonetized 86% of its currency in circulation in an attempt to reduce black money, corruption, and counterfeiting. Yet, 99% of the currency was eventually returned to banks.
Areendam Chanda, C. J. Cook
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Journal of Applied Finance & BankingTaiwan's elderly population is rising annually and is expected to become a super-aged society by 2025. This study examines the impact of fiscal expenditure and aging on the distribution of long-term care (LTC) facilities across 22 counties and cities ...
Hao-Chen Huang +3 more
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The Emperor's Geography - City Locations, Nature, and Institutional Optimization
Social Science Research Network, 2020 The emergence and growth of cities are shaped by both geographical features and institutional factors. We are able to analyze their interplay at different levels of the urban hierarchy by exploiting a unique data set on cities in imperial China from 221 ...
Christian Düben, Melanie Krause
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