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The European Regional Convergence Process, 1980-1995: Do Spatial Regimes and Spatial Dependence Matter?

Baumont, Catherine; Ertur, Cem; Gallo, Julie Le - EconWPA - 2002

We show in this paper that spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity matter in the estimation of the b-convergence … dependence and spatial heterogeneity in the form of structural instability across spatial convergence clubs. The estimation of … the appropriate spatial regimes spatial error model shows that the convergence process is different across regimes. We …

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …

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Housing Demand in Portugal

Carvalho, Pedro Guedes - EconWPA - 2003

In a former study (Carvalho 1995) we modeled the housing market in Portugal in a classic cross section framework and did find that housing construction was dependant from income, population and sensitive to location. Nevertheless we couldn<92>t find the extent of this sensitivity in such a...</92>

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Disparities of Exchange Rates in CEE Countries

Kocenda, Evzen - EconWPA - 2001

applied for full membership in the European Union. The results support convergence in general, but indicate a wide disparity … in the degree of convergence. From the real exchange rate standpoint the paper identifies the best candidates to join the …

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Etude de la convergence des économies d’Amérique Latine : Une union monétaire est-elle envisageable ?

Céline, GIMET; Yasmine, GUESSOUM - EconWPA - 2004

fragilités, l’utilisation des procédures d’agrégation multicritère permettra de mesurer le degré de convergence des pays du …

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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002

participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …

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Where Did the Trade Liberalization Drive Latin American Economy: A Cross Section Analysis

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

The institutional reforms towards trade liberalizations in Latin America during the 1980s and the 1990s have introduced a good measure of import competition, but trade policies alone are not sufficient to create a competitive environment in an economy. The countries in Latin America have not had...

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Health Expenditures Under the HIPC Debt Initiative

Hepp, Ralf - EconWPA - 2005

One of the goals of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt initiative is to provide additional resources for basic health care to the population of eligible developing countries. In this paper I investigate the effect of debt relief on per capita health expenditure in a sample of...

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Counting chickens when they hatch: The short-term effect of aid on growth

Clemens, Michael A.; Radelet, Steven; Bhavnani, Rikhil - EconWPA - 2004

Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We divide aid into three categories: (1) emergency and...

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External Debt Sustainability: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Arnone, Marco; Bandiera, Luca; Presbitero, Andrea - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is a review of the different approaches on external debt sustainability. The Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative was launched to assure a permanent exit from debt dependence. However, the IMF-World Bank program is not without faults, in particular for what concerns debt...

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