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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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New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries 1960-2001

Kamps, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet empirical analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a small sample of countries. Alternatively, many researchers...

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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew - EconWPA - 2004

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...

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Tax Burden and the Mismeasurement of State Tax Policy

Reed, W. Robert; Rogers, Cynthia L. - EconWPA - 2005

Tax Burden, defined as the ratio of total tax revenues over personal income, is prominently used to summarize state tax policy. We analyze the empirical relationship between changes in Tax Burden and changes in state tax policy from 1987 to 2000 – as measured by states’ own forecasts of the...

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The inefficiency of firm-augmenting public input vs. The inapplicability of provision rules

Colombier, Carsten - EconWPA - 2004

This paper contributes to the debate about the appropriate efficiency rule for the provision of a firm-augmenting public input. This debate is caused by the dissatisfaction of Kaizuka-rule, i.e. a Samuelson-type condition for public inputs, in the long run. Therefore the applicability of...

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A MODEL OF CORRUPTION IN AN INVESTMENT PROJECT

Sikdar, Soumyen; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper analyzes the phenomenon of corruption in the context of a Public Works Department (PWD) in a developing country city and examines its tenacity in the face of anticorruption measures. Different behaviour patterns of the supervisor (official) of the PWD have been considered. The...

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Subsidios de Educación: Impacto en la Migración y Convergencia Regional.

Duran, Gonzalo - EconWPA - 2005

: During the last couple of decades, the migratory movements in Chile have been minimum, regions are far from achieving match in the per capíta income, situation that would give persistence to the regional inequity. According to studies, in 52 years, half of the gap between a rich and a poor...

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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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The evolution and convergence of the government expenditure composition in the OECD countries: an analysis of the functional distribution

Sanz, Ismael; Velázquez, Francisco J. - EconWPA - 2001

, 1996). This paper has explored the existence of convergence in the structure of government expenditure by functions in the … first through the similarity index and afterwards using the usual convergence indicators (ƒÒ, ƒã and ƒ×), adapted to the … that there are some individual factors that impede the convergence to a single structure in the long run. This could be one …

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