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The determinants of Italy's regional imbalances over the long run: exploring the contributions of human and social capital

Felice, Emanuele - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

inequality in Italy. More particularly, convergence in value added per capita across Italy's regions is tested (through both …

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coenraad N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, … - CESifo - 2014

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - CESifo - 2013

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium: A level-k analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive...

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Convergence and Stability in US Regional Employment

Glyn, Andrew; Rowthorn, Robert - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

It is widely believed that regional labour markets in the USA are highly flexible, so that employment shocks have only transitory effects on joblessness since induced migration quickly offsets much of the initial impact. However time-series analysis of the response to shocks is very sensitive to...

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GMM Estimation of Empirical Growth Models

Bond, Stephen; Hoeffler, Anke - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

This paper highlights a problem in using the first-differenced GMM panel data estimator to estimate cross-country growth regressions. When the time series are persistent, the first-differenced GMM estimator can be poorly behaved, since lagged levels of the series provide only weak instruments...

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Reaching Market Equilibrium Merely by Bilateral Barters

Flåm, Sjur Didrik - CESifo - 2013

convergence to market equilibrium. It is expedient that some parties have differentiable objectives or make strictly feasible …

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It’s a Big World After All

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2007

distance. Furthermore, there is little evidence of income convergence. Using various methods and data sets, we show that many …

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A Pair-Wise Approach to Testing for Output and Growth Convergence

Pesaran, M. Hashem - CESifo - 2004

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also …-2000. Overall, the results do not support output convergence, and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature …

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Long Memory in US Real Output per Capita

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1 – 2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...

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