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Rey, Sergio J.; Janikas, Mark V. - EconWPA - 2003

The study of regional income convergence continues to attract enormous attention. Recent emphasis has been placed on … a comprehensive overview of empirical studies of regional convergence and divergence, summarizing the existing body of …

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Spatial Clustering, Inequality and Income Convergence

Janikas, Mark V.; Rey, Sergio J. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the relationship between spatial clustering and inequality at the county scale with overall state per capita income in the U.S. over the period 1969-2000. For each of the 48 coterminous states we examine measures of inequality and spatial clustering and explore how a state's...

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Specification Searches in Spatial Econometrics: The Relevance of Hendry's Methodology

Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Folmer, Hendrik; Rey, Sergio J. - EconWPA - 2002

This paper brings together a number of new specification search strategies in spatial econometric modeling. In the literature, experimental results for several forward stepwise strategies aimed at remedying spatial dependence, have been reported. Essentially, these strategies boil down to the...

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Spatial Dependence in the Evolution of Regional Income Distributions

Rey, Sergio J. - EconWPA - 2001

This paper introduces three measures of spatial dependence for use in the analysis of regional income distributions and their evolution. The first builds upon the notion of regional conditioning (Quah 1993), and is derived as a trace statistic from a modified Markov transition matrix. The...

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Sigma-convergence in the presence of spatial effects

Rey, Sergio J.; Dev, Boris - EconWPA - 2004

This paper explores the implications that spatial effects can hold for the application of measures of sigma-convergence …. The bias of a common indicator of convergence is examined for a family of spatial process models including: [a] spatial … lag, [b] spatial error, and [c] spatial moving average. We show that the measure of sigma-convergence is sensitive to a …

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Capitale sociale e sviluppo economico

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2003

Negli anni novanta si è diffusa nelle scienze sociali l’idea che la crescita non sia determinata soltanto da fattori di carattere economico, quali il capitale naturale, il capitale fisico e il capitale umano, ma anche dal tessuto sociale e istituzionale dell’economia. Gli aspetti della...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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The Contribution of Economic Geography to GDP Per Capita

Boulhol, Hervé; Serres, Alain de; Molnár, Margit - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

This paper examines how much of the dispersion in economic performance across OECD countries can be accounted for by economic geography factors. More specifically, two aspects of economic geography are examined, namely the proximity to areas of dense economic activity and endowments in natural...

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