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Geography and the Internet: Is the Internet a Substitute or a Complement for Cities? [PDF]
arXiv, 2001 By combining persons around the world into a single market, the Internet may serve as a substitute for urban agglomeration. That is, the Internet may level the consumption playing field between large, variety-laden and small, variety-starved markets. However, if local content on the Internet is more prevalent in larger markets, then the Internet may be
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Data centers, the material backbone of smart cities, power the digital economy and advanced digital services. Metaphors of ‘the cloud’ and ‘cloud computing’ obscure the massive computing and storage infrastructures, the resource flows and the land uses they mediate.
Jochen Monstadt, Katherine Saltzman
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"Agglomeration, Inequality and Economic Growth" [PDF]
The impact of income inequality on economic growth is dependent on several factors, including the time horizon considered, the initial level of income and its initial distribution.
David Castells, Vicente Royuela
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Urban–rural policy disagreement
European Journal of Political Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban–rural divides are large and growing in many national elections, but the sources of this widening divide are not well understood. Recent research has pointed to policy disagreement as one possible mechanism for this growing divide; if urban and rural residents hold increasingly dissimilar policy preferences, this disagreement could ...
SOPHIE BORWEIN +5 more
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Knowledge, networks of cities and growth in regional urban systems [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to measure the impact of different kinds of knowledge and external economies on urban growth in an intraregional context.
Joan Trullén, Rafael Boix
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arXiv, 2015 Over the last decades, in disciplines as diverse as economics, geography, and complex systems, a perspective has arisen proposing that many properties of cities are quantitatively predictable due to agglomeration or scaling effects. Using new harmonized definitions for functional urban areas, we examine to what extent these ideas apply to European ...
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Technology Adoption In and Out of Major Urban Areas: When Do Internal Firm Resources Matter Most? [PDF]
How much do internal firm resources contribute to technology adoption in major urban locations, where the advantages from agglomeration are greatest? The authors address this question in the context of a business's decision to adopt advanced Internet ...
Avi Goldfarb +2 more
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Mapping agents: A spatial economic analysis of agent location in the Federal Crop Insurance Program
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is delivered to farmers and ranchers through a partnership among the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), part of the United States Department of Agriculture, and the crop insurance industry. The FCIC offers financial incentives, through reinsurance and subsidies, to private insurance companies for insurance contracts sold
Nathan D. DeLay, Cory G. Walters
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A simple model of economic geography à la Helpman-Tabuchi [PDF]
This paper explores the interplay between commodities’ transportation costs and workers’ commuting costs within a general equilibrium framework à la Dixit-Stiglitz. Workers are mobile and choose a region where to work as well as an intraurban location to
Jacques-François, THISSE +1 more
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