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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Regional Economics"”.
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Essays in Regional Economics
… network during a strike in 2014. Exploiting regional variation in rail service cancellations, it presents causal evidence for an increase in bus ticket sales even beyond the labour dispute. Chapter 2 studies the railway expansion in Denmark in the nineteenth century. The nationwide rollout of …
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Three Essays on Regional Economics
… The model aims to capture the tension between regional competition and scale economies presented in a region where many firms produce the same (or related) good(s). Opportunistic behavior can lead clustering firms to suboptimal investment in human capital and scale economies eventually …
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Essays on labor and regional economics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Essays in urban and regional economics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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THREE ESSAYS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS
… are related to the research topics in Urban and Regional Economics. The first chapter examines whether economic self-interest associated with homeownership motivates homeowners to vote more than renters in U.S. local elections. To control for the self-selection of homeownership, I use national …
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Wage equations and the regional economics in Guatemala
… of the role of market size, income distribution, regional disparities, and regional economic growth with respect to the ways in which they condition the economic growth of a nation. Given such framework, the study pretends to explore some economic conditions of the regions of Guatemala that may …
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Essays on regional economics and political risk in Mexico
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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NAFTA's distributional effect on Mexico: three essays in regional economics
… North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on regional economic activity, migration and the distribution of wages in Mexico from 1980 to 2010. In the first essay, we use municipal level data from the Mexican Population and Economic censuses to explain the regional distribution of the benefits …
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Three essays in regional economics: migration, regional portfolio theory, resilience, and agglomeration economies
… migration is a substantial focus in the field of regional economics. Researchers attempt to enhance our understanding by examining this phenomenon through a number of different lenses. Some have examined flows to the largest cities in the country and tried to uncover the underlying reasons for the …
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Three papers in regional economics: energy productivity convergence, water resource planning, and workforce occupation-industry dynamics
… of three papers that use the perspectives of regional economics to examine three key engines of economic growth -- technology, natural resource and human capital, by taking spatial heterogeneities and relationships into consideration. The first paper empirically tests the trade-facilitated …
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The Political Water Web of the United States
… influences. Localized drivers such as regional economics and population change are localized impacts. While these concepts and issues influence water compacts as a whole, their impacts occur at different periods, albeit for the same reason. As such, we see a political web emerge that …
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An analysis of the dynamic multiplier in a two-region economy
In the literature on regional economics various models have been developed to study the causes of economic growth and income fluctuations within a region. One of the best known models is that of the export base. The validity and general applicability of this model was first emphasised by North …
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A computable general equilibrium analysis of regional impacts of macro-shocks in the 1980S
The purpose of this study is assess the domestic regional impacts of changes in federal fiscal policies and the nation's trade deficit. An attempt is made to fill a gap in the literature of regional economics by providing an explanation of how economic changes at national and international levels …
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Essays on Industrial Agglomeration and Input-Output Linkages
… is an important subject in the field of regional economics. It is an economic phenomenon with two dimensions---space and industry. These two dimensions call for research that can take both spatial and industry factors into consideration regarding industrial agglomeration. Despite the …
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Spatial-Longitudinal Bent-Cable Model with an Application to Atmospheric CFC Data
… agriculture, criminology, geology, urban and regional economics. The underlying spatial effects – the measurement error caused by any spatial pattern embedded in data – may affect both the validity and robustness of traditional descriptive and inferential techniques. Therefore, it is of …
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Financial impacts of and financing methods for high-speed rail in Portugal
… effect for the country building it, promote regional economics, etc., HSR is more capital intensive than other transportation projects in both unit cost (the cost per lane km) and total cost. Due to its high costs and public or private budget constraints, HSR may have significant financial …
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Empirical Essays on Spatial Inequality
… cutting across Economic Geography, Urban and Regional Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy, this thesis empirically investigates a set of key topics on the causes and consequences of spatial inequality. Chapter 2 examines the causes of the rural-urban gap in sociopolitical attitudes …
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Essays on Inequality, Growth, and Economic Policy
… of three chapters that study inequality and regional economics in a historical and development context.</p> <p>The first chapter examines regional inequality among Habsburg regions from the 19th century to today’s EU by using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to recreate …
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Designing landscapes for economy : designing regional landscape infrastructure to enable economic and environmental benefits
This thesis seeks to deploy landscape design as a regional economic development strategy. It investigates the relationship between economic activity and the built environment. Economies transition from one trend to the next at a faster pace than urban stock, meaning the landscape and …
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Knowledge Networks in Emerging ICT Regional Innovation Systems: An Explorative Study of the Knowledge Network of Trentino ICT Innovation System
Although the last thirty years Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) received great attention by policy makers, only during the last decade social networks were applied in the fields of innovation and regional economics. The majority of the existing empirical studies on networks adopt a static point of …
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