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Introduction to Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2018

contemporary salience of Asia in world affairs, we concentrate on the trinity of disease, human health, and regional economic … growth and development in different regions within Asia. Following this introductory chapter, there are nine chapters and … questions about disease, human health, and regional economic growth and development within Asia …

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Introduction to Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2016

themes in contemporary times and the spectacular rise of Asia. Next, the chapter provides an overview of the twelve remaining …

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Introduction to 'Rural-Urban Dichotomies and Spatial Development in Asia'

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Higano, Yoshiro; Nijkamp, Peter - 2021

-urban dichotomies and spatial development in Asia. For ease of comprehension, we have divided the present volume containing twelve …

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Digital Technologies, Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation Policies, and Economic Growth in a Creative Region

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2015

We theoretically study the impact of two innovation policies on economic growth in a region that is creative in the …

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Positive and Negative Externalities in Innovation, Trade, and Regional Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2013

We analyze the interactions between positive and negative externalities in innovation and trade for economic growth in … is growth in the human capital stock but there are negative externalities in innovation. In this scenario, we show that … opening a region to trade leads to more innovation but to no change in its long run growth rate …

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On Pessimism and Optimism by Forward Looking Agents and the Need for Social Security

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017

We study whether pessimism and optimism about the future by forward looking agents provides a rationale for social security. We first distinguish between an agent's true and pessimistic preferences and then analyze whether this agent's level of saving depends on the pessimism parameter (π) and...

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Creative Capital Production, Inefficiency, and Inequality : A Theoretical Analysis

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2016

We analyze inefficiency and inequality associated with the use of creative capital to produce a final good. We first study a case in which the creative capital units are perfect substitutes in the production of the final good. We show that the equilibrium outcome is inefficient and that there is...

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Asymmetric Information, Entrepreneurial Activity, and the Scope of Fiscal Policy in an Open Regional Economy

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2010

We analyze two hitherto little studied but salient questions concerning the trinity of asymmetric information, entrepreneurial activity, and the scope of fiscal policy in an open regional economy. First, we use a two period model to analyze the contractual relationship between entrepreneurs and...

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Technology, Learning, and Long Run Economic Growth in Leading and Lagging Regions

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2014

We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...

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Interregional Competition for Mobile Creative Capital With and Without Physical Capital Mobility

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2021

A lacuna in the extant literature and our desire to contribute to the theoretical literature on how tax/subsidy policies can be used by regions to attract the creative class together provide the motivation for this paper. The paper’s basic contribution is that it is the first to theoretically...

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