Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance PDF Download

Author: Riccardo Crescenzi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642333958
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The book aims to present “traditional features” of regional science (as geographical concepts and institutions), as well as relatively new topics such as innovation and agglomeration economies. In particular it demonstrates that, contrary to what has been argued by recent economics literature, both geography and institutions (or culture) are relevant for local development. In fact, these phenomena, along with the movement of goods and workers, are among the main reasons for persisting development differentials. These intriguing relationships are at the heart of the analysis presented in this book and form the conceptual basis for a promising institutional approach to economic geography.

Author: Marijn Molema
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429818424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Regional Studies is inextricably intertwined with history. Cultural and institutional legacies inform choices between different policy options, meaning that the past plays a crucial role in how we think about regional economic development, planning and policy. Through a selection of accessible theoretical, methodological and empirical chapters, this book explores the connections between regional development and history. Drawing on the expertise of scholars in several disciplines, it links history to topics such as behavioural geography, interdependence, divergence and regional and urban policy. This innovative book will be of interest to researchers across regional studies, planning, economic geography and economic history.

Author: Robert J. Stimson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662049112
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels. In planning for cities and regions, both large and small, economic development issues now tend to be integrated into strategic planning processes. For at least the last 50 years, scholars from various disciplines have theorised about the nature of regional economic development, developing a range of models seeking to explain the process of regional economic development, and why it is that regions vary so much in their economic structure and performance and how these aspects of a region can change dramatically over time. Regional scientists in particular have developed a comprehensive tool-kit of methodologies to measure and monitor regional economic characteristics such as industry sectors, employment, income, value of production, investment, and the like, using both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, and focusing on both static and dynamic analysis. The 'father of regional science', Walter lsard, was the first to put together a comprehensive volume on techniques of regional analysis (Isard 1960), and since then a huge literature has emerged, including the many titles in the series published by Springer in which this book is published.

Author: Jean-Claude Prager
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136310541
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Behind the mystery of economic growth stands another mystery: why do some places fare better than others? Casual evidence shows that sizable differences exist at very different spatial scales (countries, regions and cities). This book aims to discuss the main economic reasons for the existence of peaks and troughs in the spatial distribution of wealth and people, with a special emphasis on the role of large cities and regional agglomerations in the process of economic development.

Author: John Luke Gallup
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find that location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth, through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Furthermore, geography seems to be a factor in the choice of economic policy itself. When we identify geographical regions that are not conducive to modern economic growth, we find that many of these regions have high population density and rapid population increase. This is especially true of populations that are located far from the coast, and thus that face large transport costs for international trade, as well as populations in tropical regions of high disease burden. Furthermore, much of the population increase in the next thirty years is likely to take place in these geographically disadvantaged regions.

Author: Dani Rodrik
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Abstract: We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions trumps' everything else. Once institutions are controlled for, measures of geography have at best weak direct effects on incomes, although they have a strong indirect effect by influencing the quality of institutions. Similarly, once institutions are controlled for, trade is almost always insignificant, and often enters the income equation with the wrong' (i.e., negative) sign, although trade too has a positive effect on institutional quality. We relate our results to recent literature, and where differences exist, trace their origins to choices on samples, specification, and instrumentation.

Author: Ivan Turok
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351387782
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the development of cities and regions. It discusses the uncertainties associated with the stalling of hyper-globalization and asks whether this creates opportunities for resurgent regional economies driven by local capabilities, resource efficiencies and domestic production. Theory and evidence on socio-economic and environmental transitions underway in many regions are brought together. Implications of the shifting balance of global power towards emerging economies in the East are explored, along with the consequences of urbanization in the global South for politics and democracy. Dilemmas surrounding migration are also discussed, including whether incomers displace local workers and depress wages, or bring benefits in the form of know-how, new technology and investment. More integrative concepts of the region and theories of regional development are analysed, recognising the role of human capital, knowledge, innovation, finance, infrastructure and institutions. This was originally published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Author: Peter Hartlieb
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668150222
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,7, Technical University of Darmstadt (Fachgebiet Internationale Wirtschaft), language: English, abstract: Rodrik, Subramanian, and Trebbi (2002) contribute to the discussion on the impact of geography, institutions and international trade on cross-national differences in income levels. They find that only institutions exert a significant direct impact on incomes. Meanwhile, international trade has no direct effect and geography has at best weak direct effects on incomes. Examining its empirical framework, I find that the way the study measures geography is inadequate and that the framework therefore does not treat the three “deeper determinants” equally in the sense of giving the geography-hypothesis a smaller chance to prevail. Based on this finding, the underlying structure is adjusted and developed further to provide an improved basis for future analyses.

Author: Walter B. Stöhr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: Michael Storper
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400846269
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper identifies four contexts that shape urban economic development: economic, institutional, innovational and interactional, and political. The book explores how these contexts operate and how they interact, leading to developmental success in some regions and failure in others. Demonstrating that the global economy is increasingly driven by its major cities, the keys to the city are the keys to global development. In his conclusion, Storper specifies eight rules of economic development targeted at policymakers. Keys to the City explains why economists, sociologists, and political scientists should take geography seriously.