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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"spatial economics"”.
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Essays in Spatial Economics
… of exposure to these common shocks, and on spatial interactions between locations. The first chapter, building upon administrative data covering the universe of dwellings in France, documents the presence of home bias in investment (a negative effect of distance for individual investors' …
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Essays on Spatial Economics
… each 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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Essays in Urban and Spatial Economics
… infrastructure and regulation shape urban and spatial outcomes. While rather different in terms of the specific topic, they share at least three common themes. First, all chapters are policy-oriented and speak to currently urgent issues. Second, they study how access—whether to goods, services, …
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Essays on spatial economics and trade
… and "relocation" through the prism of a dynamic spatial model that I estimate through impulse response matching to the empirical findings. The deportation scenario removes workers unevenly across regions, resulting in a long-term reduction in aggregate output of 1%. In contrast, the relocation …
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Theory and Simulations in Spatial Economics
… as well as theoretical analysis of potential spatial separation of heterogeneous agents operating on a two-dimensional grid space that represents a city. Heterogeneity refers to a characteristic which is also a determinant of individual valuation of land. We study spatial separation with …
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Essays in Spatial Economics, Trade, and Climate Change
… and agglomeration. I utilize modern quantitative spatial modelling tools and structural estimation techniques to investigate how space and spatial frictions affect economic outcomes, with a particular focus on climate change. In Chapter 1, I quantify the relative importance of three fundamental …
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Accounting for well capacity in the economic decision making of groundwater users
Water conflicts unfolding around the world present the need for accurate economic models of groundwater use which couple traditional producer theory with hydrological science. We present a static optimization problem of individual producer rents, given groundwater as a variable input to production. …
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Innovation and Growth: Theoretical Models and Analytical Simulations of Spatial, Clustering and Competition Effects
… But knowledge spillovers are also subject to spatial characteristics in its transfer between firms, locations, regions and nations. Similarly, knowledge is used by innovators in many sectors, not just the sector where the knowledge was originally developed. As a result, innovating firms have …
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The effects of infrastructure investment on economic development in China, with specific focus on High-Speed Railways
… perspectives. HSR can certainly change the spatial pattern of China due to its advantages in efficiency, comfortability and sustainability. The transport gap between the coastal line area and inland of China might be significantly reduced due to the shrinkage of time-space map caused by the …
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Essays in Empirical Microeconomics
In this thesis, I study the impact of minimum wage policy and city agglomeration on wages and employment in local labour markets. This is an important topic because having a better understanding of the determinants of regional wage differentials and employment offers insights into: the roles played …