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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"New 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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Regional wage disparities in post-apartheid South Africa: spatial patterns, convergence dynamics, and causes
… placed 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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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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Industry concentration in South Africa
… and the country's first democratic elections, a new industrial policy has been pursued with the aim of facilitating industrial activity in certain areas of the country. This study addresses the issue of manufacturing industry concentration in South Africa. First, a review of the theory of …
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Location Choice, Linkages and the Spatial Economy: Essays on Theory, Evidence and Heterodox Assessment
… theoretical and empirical contributions to urban economics and regional science, focusing on the growing importance of nonmarket interactions. There is increasing evidence that the process of globalization is rendering the world "spiky" rather than "flat". Nonmarket interactions, such as knowledge …
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The role of agglomeration and dispersion forces on the spatial distribution of economic activity in Chile: an empirical analysis of spatial wage distribution and regional housing prices
… NEG model to represent the additional sources. A new empirical approach is provided to evaluate the role of alternative theories such as the role of amenities. Finally, the Chapter 4 shows a different side of the spatial concentration which is related with the dispersion forces. This section …
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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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Innovation and Growth: Theoretical Models and Analytical Simulations of Spatial, Clustering and Competition Effects
… between endogenous growth theory and the New Economic Geography (NEG) in the existing literature creates an opportunity to incorporate features of innovation within a model of both geography and growth. The thesis explores three key areas. Firstly, innovation is based on knowledge …
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Financial exclusion and inclusion : credit union development in Kingston upon Hull
Within the flourishing area of new economic geography, increased attention is currently being paid to a variety of 'alternative' sources of credit and finance. As one of these forms, British credit unions are currently particularly 'sexy'. One reason for this status relates to increasing interest …
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Essays on Technology and Trade
… large firms in local labor markets. We propose a new economic geography model featuring granular firms subject to idiosyncratic shocks. We show that average wages increase in the size of the local labor market due to that granularity, and provide a sufficient statistic for the contribution of our …
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Preferential Trade Agreements, taxation, and industry location
… general equilibrium model based on the New Economic Geography approach to analyse the possible effects of the formation of a PTA as well as the effects of the subsequent policy responses. We consider the situation in which two of the countries form a PTA and the third country acts as the …
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Dispersion of agglomeration through transport infrastructure
… productivity, scale and distribution of urban economic activities through changing intercity accessibility. Standard project-level cost-benefit analysis fails to capture the economy-wide impacts in justifying investments in the transport sector. I propose a research framework that: (1) …
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Essays on Spatial Economics
… studying optimal policy in a model of spatial economics. The first chapter considers the policy problem of a country looking to influence the geopolitical actions of another country. The second chapter considers how a central government should design place-based transfers to fight local …
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Das Städtesystem der Russischen Föderation aus Sicht der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie
Der Anstieg der Energiepreise kann zu einer länger anhaltenden Verteuerung von Gütertransporten führen. Welche Auswirkungen haben steigende Transportkosten auf die Entwicklung von Städtesystemen? Ein solcher Transportkostenanstieg hat in der Russischen Föderation nach der Preisliberalisierung 1992 …
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Wage equations and the regional economics in Guatemala
… Nations estimates that in the coming years the economic structure of the country will change to an urban country. This situation triggers the need of an enhanced understanding of the role of market size, income distribution, regional disparities, and regional economic growth with respect to the …
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Asymmetrien in der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie
Die Neue Ökonomische Geographie (NEG) erklärt Agglomerationen aus einem mikroökonomischen Totalmodell heraus. Zur Vereinfachung werden verschiedene Symmetrieannahmen getätigt. So wird davon ausgegangen, dass die betrachteten Regionen die gleiche Größe haben, die Ausgabenanteile für verschiedene …
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Essays on transport economics
… dissertation address different topics on the economics of transportation. The first two essays analise the demand side of transportation services. In the first essay, we study the phenomena related to the first two steps in the traditional four-step model for traffic assignment: trip …