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What about regions in regional science? An exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union

Resende, Guilherme; Cravo, Tulio - European Regional Science Association - 2013

the empirical results caused by the use of different spatial scales in the analysis of convergence process of European … (MAUP). Thus, convergence processes among EU15 are examined across three spatial scales often used in applied work, namely …, NUTS1, NUTS2 and NUTS3, between 2000 and 2008. The paper suggests that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the …

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Inflation, Growth, and Credit Services

Gillman, Max; Kejak, Michal; Valentinyi, Akos - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 1999

The empirical evidence suggests that there is a significant, negative relationship between inflation and economic growth. Conventional monetary growth models, however, predict a significantly smaller growth effect. This paper proposes a monetary growth model with an explicit credit service...

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Economic growth and balance of payments constraint in Vietnam

Rieber, Arsène; Bagnai, Alberto; Tran, Thi Anh-Dao - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

Our paper examines the long run relationship between economic growth and the current account balance equilibrium by relying on the BoP constrained growth model. We find that Vietnam grew less than the rate predicted when the period 1985 to 2010 as a whole is considered, but with different...

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Trust, Confidence and Economic Growth An Evaluation of the Beugelsdijk Hypothesis

Volland, Benjamin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey's question "In general, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" - and economic growth, established by empirical...

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Economic Development Problems of Landlocked Countries

MacKellar, Landis; Woergoetter, Andreas; Woerz, Julia - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2000

Do landlocked countries face special economic development problems? Whereas traditional neoclassical theory is ambiguous, more recent directions in trade theory and the theory of economic growth suggest reasons why landlocked countries might be at a disadvantage. Our empirical evidence confirms...

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MEGACITIES AND COUNTRIES: URBANIZATION AND REAL CONVERGENCE

Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - European Regional Science Association - 2014

, attracting immigration and amenities. Nevertheless, although it seems to have convergence among the big cities considered in this … convergence-divergence among 50 Mega-cities of the World, and the convergence-divergence among its corresponding countries, using … several growth models, studying the possible existence of Clubs convergence among these cities and countries. …

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Conspicious Consumption, Economic Growth, and Taxation: A Generalization

Fisher, Walter H.; Hof, Franz X. - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2000

This paper studies the infuence of consumption externalities in the Ramsey model. In contrast to the recent literature, a quite general specification of preferences is used and the concept of the effective intertemporal elasticity of substitution is introduced. We give conditions for the...

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