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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"spatial spillovers"”.
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Three essays on institutional change
… a country. The final essay explores if there are spatial spillovers from institutions in the European Union. The final chapter summarizes the conclusions of the three essays and discusses some possibilities for further investigation.
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Territorial Challenges and Sustainable Regional Development. A mixed-method approach
… aggregation; meta-frontier benchmarking and a Spatial Durbin Model separate local efficiency from structural disadvantage and reveal spatial spillovers. Chapter 2 tests whether Protected Areas reduce landscape fragmentation using a boundary-based regression discontinuity design on CORINE Land …
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Essays on Regional Economic Growth in China
… and robust after accounting for spatial spillovers. Chapter 4 models the temporary rural-urban migration in China using a continuous OLG model with heterogeneous agents. An agent determines his migration duration optimally based on his ability, urban/rural wage gap, and …
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Essays on Industrial Pollution, Regulation, and Health
… critical role of environmental regulation and spatial spillovers in shaping the health impacts of industrial activity.
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Passing on dietary diversity? Livestock ownership in the Copperbelt Region of Zambia
… to have a significant local aspect, there may be spatial spillovers allowing for improved nutrition both for the recipient households and for their communities as well. This research uses a unique dataset from Zambia to measure food security effects, and dietary diversity specifically, of …
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Essays in development economics
… location choices of consumers and firms, in a spatial equilibrium framework. More compact cities are characterized by larger population, lower wages, and higher rents, consistent with compact shape being a consumption amenity. The welfare cost of deteriorating city shape is estimated to be …
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Three essays on the spatial analysis of sustainable dairy farming in New Zealand
… the impact of farmer choice on the environment. Spatial spillover effects, which are considered as important issues at either the regional level or farm-level decision-making, are addressed in all three essays. As the New Zealand dairy industry faces the challenge of increasing productivity and …
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Three essays on housing economics
… includes two chapters that investigate the spatial behavior of housing price and its volatility and one chapter that focuses on a more fundamental housing issue. The first chapter examines the spatial variation of housing price volatility. I develop a flexible spatial volatility model for …
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Regional Socio-Economic Transformation in Brazil
… is that there has been almost time-invariant spatial autocorrelation in Brazil’s growth process that impedes the lagging regions from catching up. The reason for this is that there is a clear cluster of contiguous rich regions (Southeast and South) – i.e. the core - characterised not only by …
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Effects of public policies on informal and formal urban expansion. A comparative impact evaluation between neighborhood legalization and slum upgrading policies in Bogota-Colombia
Una de las principales características de la historia reciente de las ciudades latinoamericanas ha sido la rápida y descontrolada expansión de la ciudad informal e ilegal, que, sólo en el caso de Bogotá, ha provocado un déficit habitacional de más de 352.000 hogares (14 % de la población de la …