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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 “tourism countries” within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423168
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Regional variety and employment growth in Italian labour market areas: services versus manufacturing industries
Mameli, Francesca; Iammarino, Simona; Boschma, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of regional sectoral diversity on regional employment growth in Italy over the period 1991-2001. Assuming that externalities may be stronger between industries selling similar products or sharing the same skills and technology (i.e. related industries), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493985
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Knowledge Coherence, Variety and Productivity Growth: Manufacturing Evidence from Italian Regions
Quatraro, Francesco - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009
This paper analyzes the effects of the evolution of knowledge base in the manufacturing sectors on regional productivity growth. Knowledge is viewed as a heterogeneous asset, and an evolutionary perspective is adopted. The results of the empirical estimations corroborate the hypothesis that...
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Related variety, trade variety and regional growth in Italy
Boschma, Ron; Iammarino, Simona - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008
This paper makes an attempt to estimate the impact of regional variety and trade linkages on regional economic growth by means of export and import data by Italian province (NUTS 3) and sector (3-digit) for the period 1995-2003. Our results show strong evidence of related variety contributing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133021
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Industrial Coal Demand in China: A Provincial Analysis
Manera, Matteo; Cattaneo, Cristina; Scarpa, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China’s energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965192
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The Knowledge Economy and Urban Economic Growth
Raspe, Otto; Oort, Frank van - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2006
In this paper we contribute to the longstanding discussion on the role of knowledge to economic growth in a spatial context. We observe that in adopting the European policy strategy towards a competitive knowledge economy, The Netherlands is – as most European countries - mainly oriented...
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Geographical Distribution of Crime in Italian Provinces: A Spatial Econometric Analysis
Uberti, Teodora Erika; Cracolici, Maria Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
For a long time social sciences scholars from different fields have devoted their attention to identifying the causes leading to commit criminal offences and recently lots of studies have included the analysis of spatial effects. Respect to the Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230892
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Energy Efficiency in Transition Economies: Is There Convergence Towards the EU Average?
Markandya, Anil; Pedroso, Suzette; Streimikiene, Dalia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
convergence, and a carefully estimated econometric model of lagged adjustment confirms this. On average, a 1% decrease in the per … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters … fastest convergence rates given these parameters are the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. The forecast values for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385409
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The ICT Revolution: Opportunities and Risks for the Mezzogiorno
Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Pinelli, Dino - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385512
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Waste Generation and Landfill Diversion Dynamics: Decentralised Management and Spatial Effects
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Nicolli, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
contribute to explaining the waste dynamics. Though North-South waste performances are showing some signals of convergence …, greater efforts towards convergence of waste performances in a decentralised policy scenario are needed. …
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