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How big is the impact of infrastructure on trade? Evidence from meta-analysis

Celbis, Mehmet Güney; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure...

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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...

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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

See also the article 'The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Meta-analytic evidence' in <I>Papers in … that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable … self-reinforcing growth rather than neoclassical convergence. However, studies that use panel models or IV estimation yield …

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Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption

Galí, Jordi; López-Salido, J. David - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

Recent evidence on the effect of government spending shocks on consumption cannot be easily reconciled with existing optimizing business cycle models. We extend the standard New Keynesian model to allow for the presence of rule-of-thumb (non-Ricardian) consumers. We show how the interaction of...

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union

Galí, Jordi; Monacelli, Tommaso - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

We lay out a tractable model for fiscal and monetary policy analysis in a currency union, and analyze its implications for the optimal design of such policies. Monetary policy is conducted by a common central bank, which sets the interest rate for the union as a whole. Fiscal policy is...

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The Effects of a Money-Financed Fiscal Stimulus

Galí, Jordi - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

I analyze the effects of an increase in government purchases financed entirely through seignorage, in both a classical and a New Keynesian framework, and compare them with those resulting from a more conventional debt-financed stimulus. My findings point to the importance of nominal rigidities...

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