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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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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)...
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Why are some Spanish regions so much more efficient than others?
Puig, Jaume; Pinilla, Jaime - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
This article investigates the main sources of heterogeneity in regional efficiency. We estimate a translog stochastic frontier production function in the analysis of Spanish regions in the period 1964-1996, to attempt to measure and explain changes in technical efficiency. Our results confirm...
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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 …
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Horizontal innovation in the theory of growth and development
Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer (1990). In the first part, we present different versions of the benchmark linear model with imperfect competition. These include the “labequipment” model, labor-for-intermediates” and...
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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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The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Profits
Katsimi, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - CESifo - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of fiscal policy on profits using panel data for 19 high-income OECD countries during the period 1975-1999. We estimate a profit equation in which profits depend on a set of fiscal variables. Our empirical method is based on a consistent treatment of the...
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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 2008
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196238