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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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Space and Growth
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256152
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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365294
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Misspecification in Linear Spatial Regression Models
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Spatial effects are endemic in models based on spatially referenced data. The increased awareness of the relevance of spatial interactions, spatial externalities and networking effects among actors, evoked the area of spatial econometrics. Spatial econometrics focuses on the specification and...
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Regional Population-Employment Dynamics across Different Sectors of the Economy
Graaff, Thomas de; Oort, Frank G. van; Florax, Raymond … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
An important subset of the literature on agglomeration externalities hypothesizes thatintrasectoral and intersectoral relations are endogenously determined in models of localand regional economic growth. Remarkably, structural adjustment models describing thespatio-temporal dynamics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257177
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The Impact of Regional Absorptive Capacity on Spatial Knowledge Spillovers
Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper led to an article in <I>Applied Economics</I> (2012). Volume 44, issue 11, pages 1363-1374.<P> We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but...</p></i>
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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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A Meta-Analysis of Beta-Convergence: The Legendary Two-Percent
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …
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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...
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