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Authors:Evren Y; Ökten A. Pages: 893 - 911 Abstract: AbstractStickiness and slipperiness are two extreme socio-economic and institutional conditions under which industrial clusters operate. In much of the economic geography literature, these conditions have been investigated separately. This article challenges this conventional view by developing an alternative framework that utilises some of the basic concepts and approaches of evolutionary thinking and dialectic understanding of agglomeration. With the evidence from Istanbul’s old city jewellery cluster, we argue that stickiness and slipperiness are inextricably tied together and the spatial configuration of clusters is the result of a complicated balance between these two. In Istanbul, these twin conditions are complementary and interact allowing the possibility to transform each other. In the course of cluster evolution, the interactions of the opposite trends result in the emergence of new actions, networks and contexts. PubDate: 2017-01-18 DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbw046 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 4 (2017)
Authors:Jiang S. Pages: 913 - 915 Abstract: WeberRachelChicago: University of Chicago Press2015. ISBN 9780226294513 (paperback), 296 pp. Price $45.00 PubDate: 2017-02-27 DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbx002 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 4 (2017)
Authors:Brauer J; Montolio D, Trujillo-Baute E. Pages: 753 - 790 Abstract: AbstractWe exploit variations in US state firearms laws to study their relation to the spatial distribution of more than 2700 federally licensed manufacturers of firearms for the civilian and law enforcement markets across the country. Accounting for a variety of economic factors—such as cost, tax burden and agglomeration effects—we find that states with relatively permissive, end-user friendly laws host more firearms manufacturing establishments than do states with relatively restrictive, end-user unfriendly laws. This supply side-oriented paper complements a literature that predominantly attends to the market’s demand side. It thus opens up a new avenue to study the US civilian firearms market. PubDate: 2016-06-16 DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbw016 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 4 (2016)
Authors:Zhao T; Jones-Evans D. Pages: 791 - 824 Abstract: AbstractBy utilizing the SME Finance Monitor and a unique dataset on the geographical location of all bank branches in 11 UK economic regions, this paper examines the relevance of spatial differentiation on SMEs’ access to bank finance during the period of economic weakness following the 2007 financial crisis. We find evidence suggesting the presence of a regional-specific effect on SMEs’ access to bank finance. Our findings show that greater functional distance between bank headquarters and branches exacerbates the credit constraints faced by local SMEs although the impact of a smaller operational distance between branches and local SMEs is inconclusive, ceteris paribus. Our finding holds over a battery of robustness tests. PubDate: 2016-10-17 DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbw029 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 4 (2016)
Authors:Chicoine LE. Pages: 825 - 856 Abstract: AbstractThe year following the expiration of the U.S. Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), the homicide rate in Mexico increased for the first time in a decade. A difference-in-discontinuities model and a unique dataset are used to compare discontinuities generated by close mayoral elections on either side of the AWB expiration. The model finds a statistically significant increase in the firearm homicide rate following the expiration of the AWB. This effect is larger closer to the U.S.–Mexico border, is isolated to the timing of the expiration, and there is no evidence of a concurrent increase in non-firearm homicides or other violent crime. PubDate: 2016-12-06 DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbw031 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 4 (2016)
Authors:Becchetti L; Corrado L, Fiaschetti M. Pages: 857 - 891 Abstract: AbstractWith an online survey on major Italian newspapers we ask respondents to simulate the typical policymaker decision, that is, the dilemma of allocating scarce financial resources among alternative competing goals using the domains of the newly defined Italian BES (sustainable and equitable wellbeing) indicators. Our main finding is that homogeneity of choices is rejected since preferred allocations are strongly affected by socio-demographic factors and mainly by political orientation, age, education and gender. An important related result is that education and political orientation significantly affect preferences toward sustainable development. We as well find that respondents’ expenditure preferences on a given BES domain are mainly affected by the relative scarcity/abundance of wellbeing on that given domain at the regional level. PubDate: 2016-12-06 DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbw042 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 4 (2016)
Authors:Mayer T; Mayneris F, Py L. Pages: 709 - 752 Abstract: AbstractIn this article, we study the impact of a French enterprise zone program—the ‘Zones Franches Urbaines’ (ZFUs) policy—on establishment location decisions and on labor market outcomes. Our main identification strategy, which combines spatial and time differencing, shows that conditional on locating in a municipality that hosts a ZFU, the policy has a positive and sizable impact on the probability to locate in the ZFU part rather than in the non-ZFU part of municipalities. However, the impact is highly heterogeneous across zones, industries and firms. We also show that this positive effect is entirely due to within-municipality diversion effects. Regarding labor market outcomes, the policy has a positive effect on employment, especially for low-wage workers. As for wages, the effect is null for low-wage workers, and negative for high-wage ones. PubDate: 2015-10-10 DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbv035 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 4 (2015)
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