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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Economic Geography"”.
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Essays in New Economic Geography
… his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" witnesses the important role that the scienti�c community gives to the insights of the so-called New Economic Geography (NEG) literature. This field of economic analysis has always been particularly appealing to policy makers, …
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Three papers in economic geography
… a series of obstacles that limit its long-term economic sustainability. In addition, population is experiencing a lag in accessibility to public services since national and local governments are unable to match the ever-growing demands. The resulting spatial mismatches present a major policy …
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Essays in economic geography and finance
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Essays on economic geography and networks
… of firms, people, and locations shape socio-economic activities. The first chapter analyzes the role of supplier to buyer matching in the firm-to-firm trade as a source of geographic concentration of economic activities. Using a panel of firm-to-firm trade data covering over a million …
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Essays on Economic Geography and Development Economics
… dissertation comprises two papers studying economic geography in a developing country context. Chapter 1 quantifies the effects of cultural barriers on internal migration and welfare in Indonesia. I estimate internal migration gravity using linguistic distances as a proxy for cultural …
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Fejezetek a gazdaságföldrajzból: horizontális termékdifferenciálás = Chapters from economic geography: horizontal differentiation
A disszertáció a horizontális differenciálás témakörére épül, ahol a gazdaságföldrajz két jelentősebb alágából, az új gazdaságföldrajzból és a Hotelling típusú modellekből kerül bemutatásra öt egy-máshoz kapcsolódó tanulmány. Ennek megfelelően az értekezés egy makro– és illetve egy mik-roökonómiai …
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Essays in Economic Geography: Convergence, Inequalities and Innovations in the Knowledge Economy
"In the paper ""Innovation and Geography: an Exploratory Analysis of Patents in the U.S."", the purpose is to assess the extent to which innovation is affected by the structure of the economy in terms of the industrial specialization, diversity and competition. Innovation is proxied by the number …
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Essays in economic geography: Convergence, inequalities and innovations in the knowledge economy
… consists of four papers embedded within the Economic Geography field. The first paper analyzes economic growth and convergence from a time series perspective focusing on regional labor markets. The second paper uses microdata to evaluate what is termed conditional sigma convergence. Finally, …
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An Economic Geography of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland, c.1760–1840
… gap in the literature, this thesis presents an economic geography of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland based on the *Old* and *New Statistical Accounts of Scotland* (1791–99 and 1834–42), collections of essay‐style answers by parish clergy to a 170‐question survey that include observations …
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Labour and Geography in Ireland, 2006 Evaluating the National Spatial Strategy for Ireland 2002 - 2020: People, Places and Potential
… the spatial structures associated with Ireland’s economic geography through an analysis of travel-to-work patterns. In doing so it applies, within the Irish context, novel techniques to identify local labour market areas using data that, heretofore, were unavailable to researchers in Ireland, i.e. …
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Regional wage disparities in post-apartheid South Africa: spatial patterns, convergence dynamics, and causes
… on theoretical insights derived from the new economic geography theory. The subsequent 3 chapters comprise the empirical analysis. Chapter three applies exploratory spatial data analysis techniques to the 1996, 2001 and 2011 population censuses data and examines the spatial patterns that …
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Industry in Lanzhou
… structuralism and functionalism, regional economic development and spatial distribution of economic activity were understood as determined by aspects of the macro-structural power, such as location factors, spatial divisions of labour, and class struggle. In contrast, many theories such as …
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Everyday finances and consumption in Brunei Darussalam
… growing interest in studying financialisation in economic geography mainly in Anglo-American societies. Most attempts in understanding finance in Geography focus on macro level finance culture i.e. examining financial structures and institutions. With financial iberalisation, financial …
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Regional Resilience: Are recessionary shocks persistent or transitory?
… of considerable importance given the post-2008 economic crisis, which is characterised by a period of severe global instability resulting from unprecedented economic shocks. Martin et al. (2016) note that in economic geography resilience describes regions’ reactions to, and recovery from, …
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Regional Socio-Economic Transformation in Brazil
… only slightly. This thesis combines traditional economic theory with insights from regional science and economic geography to explain the development pattern in Brazil throughout the 20th century, using a wide range of data sets. It contributes to the consolidation of the field of New Economic …
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Effects of Trade and FDI Policies: Evidence from the U.S. and China
… essays in international trade and labor economics. The first and second essays develop empirical methodologies to investigate the distributional effect of globalization on labor market outcomes in the United States and China, respectively. The first essay studies the effect of export …
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The Effects of Geography and Proximity on Board of Directors: An Exponential Random Graphs Approach
… organizations. Drawing on the rich literature in economic geography, these studies focus on re-evaluating the effects of geography on board of directors in the contemporary context characterized by significant technological advancements which is expected to minimize the effects of distance.</p> …
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"The Goose that Lays the Golden Egg"?: The "Bio-Med" Industries of New Orleans
… has emerged as an attractive target for economic development in New Orleans, in Louisiana, and in the nation as a whole. Informed by economic geography and development literature, this research presents a narrative of efforts to foster the Bio-Med industries in New Orleans as a source of …
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