Do Regions Matter? Evidence on Capabilities and Coalitions from Defense-Dependent Regions

Defense Capabilities and the Defense Capabilities Initiative

One significant way in which the duplication issue has remained important emerged from the introduction of another factor. By the time of St. Mâlo and the first U.S. formal response to it, the NATO Alliance was also “seized of” concerns about its own military resources and capacities. Having successfully completed the design phase of adapting the NATO Alliance to meet the challenges of the post...

Bilingualism alters brain functional connectivity between "control" regions and "language" regions: Evidence from bimodal bilinguals.

Previous neuroimaging studies have revealed that bilingualism induces both structural and functional neuroplasticity in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the left caudate nucleus (LCN), both of which are associated with cognitive control. Since these "control" regions should work together with other language regions during language processing, we hypothesized that bilingualism may...

How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions

How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased the high school dropo...

Politics and Property Rights : Evidence from Russia 's Regions

Specialization and Risk Sharing: Evidence from European Regions

Economic theory emphasizes that pursuing risk sharing allows to exploit benefits from comparative advantages and economies of scale. Unlike previous works we test (and reject) the assumption of parameter homogeneity across geographical units in measuring risk sharing. The estimated regional-specific index of risk sharing is then used as a covariate in a model of industrial specialization for th...