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Growth and externalities across economies. An empirical analysis using spatial econometrics
Valcarce, Esther Vaya; Bazo, Enrique Lopez; Serrano, … - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2000
. We assess the role of these external effects in explaining growth and economic convergence. We present a simple growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022389
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Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; … - CESifo - 2008
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766292
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Growth, Convergence and Public Investment. A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach
Gonzalez, Roberto Leon; Estivill, Daniel Montolio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2003
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we study the determinants of economic growth among a wide set of potential variables for the Spanish provinces (NUTS3). Among others, we include various types of private, public and human capital in the group of growth factors. Also, we analyse whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138828
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“Factor Accumulation, Externalities and Absorptive Capacity in Regional Growth: Evidence from Europe”
Jung, Juan; López-Bazo, Enrique - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2014
This paper proposes a model which incorporates capital accumulation and spatial spillovers across economies, while allowing for regional differences in absorptive abilities. This model is estimated using a sample of 215 European NUTS2 regions, before and after the 2004 enlargement of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774275
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Logistics and Exports
Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Drawing on a new and comprehensive measure of logistics quality, our gravity model suggests logistics in the exporting and partner-country can have an important impact on bilateral exports.  A one standard deviation improvement in the exporter's logistics quality, which for example would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004383
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The Language Effect in International Trade: A Meta-Analysis
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - CESifo - 2011
Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399661
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Regional Convergence and Catch-up in India between 1960 and 1992
Trivedi, Kamakshya - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
This paper examines the evidence for regional convergence or catch-up in levels and growth rates of per capita income …, Re-Weighted Least Squares, and Least Trimmed Squares - establish that unconditional convergence in growth rates does not … obtain, but that there is clear and robust evidence of conditional convergence. This suggests that important differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605213
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004271
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Employment Concentration across US Counties
Fafchamps, Marcel; Desmet, Klaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003
becoming more or less concentrated. The existing literature has found deconcentration (convergence) of employment across urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090665
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Growth, convergence and (why not?) regional externalities
Valcarce, Esther Vaya; Bazo, Enrique Lopez; Ortuno, … - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 1998
of these effects in a growth equation may downward bias the estimated rate of convergence by assingning the effect of … regional externalities to the convergence parameter. We propose the use of spatial econometrics techniques to test and estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005120761