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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees

Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2021

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to … understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April … businesses that had stopped operating due to the pandemic. The survey asks 136 questions covering topics such as changes in …

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The structure of the American economy

Fisher, Eric O'N.; Marshall, Kathryn G. - 2008

We explore the relationship between input-output accounts and the national revenue function. The generalized inverse of an economy's technology matrix carries information relating changes in endowments with changes in outputs; its transpose relates output prices and factor prices. Our primary...

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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth : Evidence from the United States

Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022

We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...

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The size distribution across all "cities": A unifying approach

Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012

In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether cities are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...

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The Evolution of Zipf's Law for U.S. Cities

Hackmann, Angelina - 2018

Exploiting the cascade structure of cities and based on a dataset for U.S. cities between 1840 and 2016, the aim of this short paper is to answer three important questions: First, do we observe that the U.S. city size distribution exhibits a smooth transition to Zipf's law from the beginning or...

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Social Distancing and the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in the United States

Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2021

This study documents how the demographics of new infections and mortality changed over time across US counties. We find that counties with a larger population share aged above 60 were hit harder initially in terms of both cases and mortality in March and April while counties with a larger...

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Corporate tax policy and international mergers and acquisitions: is the tax exemption system superior

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2007

In this paper we ask whether recent claims that the US government should switch from the tax credit system to the exemption system are justified. We study corporate taxation in a model where international capital flows are either greenfield investment projects or acquisitions of existing firms,...

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Institutions and offshoring decision

Nicolini, Marcella - 2007

Several papers have proven that the institutional environment of the receiving country can influence the choice to establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is the first attempt to test whether institutions...

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Horizontal versus vertical interdependence in multinational activity

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - 2008

Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...

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