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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 …
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We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid- 1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...
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We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
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We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...
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(the agricultural club) show no evidence of convergence and appear to have been left behind in terms of economic …
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This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate …
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This paper analyzes the spatial structure of goods market integration in Russia, characterizing regions into three states: (a) integrated, (b) not integrated but trending toward integration, and (c) not integrated and not trending toward integration. Using time series of the cost of a staples...
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This is an empirical study of the real income convergence among the fifteen European Union members and the eleven …-section regression and dynamic panel data estimations. Most estimation methods find positive convergence, but estimated rates of … convergence vary considerably. …
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other studies on the same topic. The models tested are grounded in the law of one price. Price convergence is analysed with … univariate time series methods, where linear and non-linear cointegration models refer to convergence in the short run and in the …-linear trend variable in the model indicates whether there is movement towards integration in the long run. Convergence of prices …
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that, from the 1980's onwards, we can accept the hypothesis of stochastic convergence between France, Germany and Japan, on …
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