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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707128
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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365294
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Spatio-temporal Analysis of Regional Systems: A Multiregional Spatial Vector Autoregressive Model for Spain
RAMAJO, JULIAN; MARQUEZ, MIGUEL A.; HEWINGS, GEOFFREY J.D. - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740435
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Moonshot : Public R&D and Growth
Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322858
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Theory and empirics of horizontal and spatial integration of local communal services
Czako, Katalin; Poreisz, Veronika - European Regional Science Association - 2013
There are three parts of our paper. Firstly, it gives an overview about the goals and factors which affect the integration of local communal services. Horizontal integration means joining the various individual service providers, such as water supply and sewage, communal waste, district heating,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145512
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Les conflits d’usage dans les espaces ruraux et périurbains. Le cas des infrastructures franciliennes
Torre, André; Pham, Hai Vu; Kirat, Thierry - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
The article offers an empirically-founded analysis of conflicts on public utility infrastructures in the region surrounding Paris It sheds some light on public decision-making process and on the role conflicts play in the process of land availability in the Paris region. Empirical evidence based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073947
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Interregional Inequality and Federal Expenditures and Transfers in Russia
Torbenko, Alexander - European Regional Science Association - 2014
The paper considers the influence of federal government expenditures and transfers on interregional convergence in … period in Russian regions there existed un- conditional beta-convergence, poor regions grew faster than rich ones. This …. Comparing our results to the results of previous research the process of interregional convergence in Russia can be seen. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075963
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The Impact of Government Procurement Composition on Private R&D Activities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government demand in high-tech industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291506
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Government Spending Composition in a Simple Model of Schumpeterian Growth
Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We construct a parsimonious Schumpeterian growth model in which demand from the public sphere can effectively alter the economy's rate of technological change. We incorporate results of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457975
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Dynamics of Collaborative Invention Tracking Growth of Cooperative and Total Patents in the Region
Bürger, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level. Patent data for German regions and eleven subsequent years is used to identify collaborative activity as well as the innovative output in each region. The results confirm to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884469