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Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours

de Vreyer, Philippe; Spielvogel, Gilles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

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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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Almost sure testability of classes of densities

Devroye, Luc; Lugosi, Gábor - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

Let a class $\F$ of densities be given. We draw an i.i.d.\ sample from a density $f$ which may or may not be in $\F$. After every $n$, one must make a guess whether $f \in \F$ or not. A class is almost surely testable if there exists such a testing sequence such that for any $f$, we make...

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Variable Kernel estimates: On the impossibility of tuning the parameters

Devroye, Luc; Lugosi, Gábor - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

For the standard kernel density estimate, it is known that one can tune the bandwidth such that the expected L1 error is within a constant factor of the optimal L1 error (obtained when one is allowed to choose the bandwidth with knowledge of the density). In this paper, we pose the same problem...

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Inequalities for a new data-based method for selecting nonparametric density estimates

Devroye, Luc; Lugosi, Gábor; Udina, Frederic - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

We continue the development of a method for the selection of a bandwidth or a number of design parameters in density estimation. We provide explicit non-asymptotic density-free inequalities that relate the $L_1$ error of the selected estimate with that of the best possible estimate, and study in...

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The disturbing 'rise' of global income inequality

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001

We use aggregate GDP data and within-country income shares for the period 1970-1998 to assign a level of income to each person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We compute world poverty rates by integrating the density...

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The Micro-level Dynamics of Regional Productivity Growth: The Source of Divergence in Finland Revised

Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence …

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Productivity, Hours Worked, and Tax/Benefit Systems in Europe and Beyond

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries and other OECD countries in 1960-2004. We emphasise the possible effects of taxes, benefits and other labour-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and...

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Growth Prospects of Emerging Market Economies in Europe - How Fast Will They Catch up with the Old West?

Kaitila, Ville; Alho, Kari E. O.; Nikula, Nuutti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Using a neo-classical growth model, we analyse the real and nominal GDP per capita convergence of 21 emerging market … physical capital intensities in the long run. Due to standard-convergence in the model, catching up will continue at a … decelerating speed. Also nominal convergence in prices that will lead to a real appreciation of the EME currencies with respect to …

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Convergence among five industrial countries (1870–1994): Results from a time varying cointegration approach

Le Pen, Yannick - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

that, from the 1980's onwards, we can accept the hypothesis of stochastic convergence between France, Germany and Japan, on …

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