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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...

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Strategic Interaction in Local Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Portuguese Municipalities

Silva, Hélia; Veiga, Linda Gonçalves; Portela, Miguel - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2011

This paper aims at testing the degree of interaction between Portuguese municipalities’ expenditure levels by estimating a dynamic panel model, based on jurisdictional reaction functions. The analysis is performed for all 278 Portuguese mainland municipalities from 1986 to 2006, using...

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The Costs of Urban Property Crime

Gibbons, Steve - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper estimates the impact of recorded domestic property crime on property prices in the London area. Crimes in the Criminal Damage category have a significant negative impact on prices. Burglaries have no measurable impact on prices, even after allowing for the potential dependence of...

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Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?

Lychagin, Sergey; Pinkse, Joris; Slade, Margaret E.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Using US firm level panel data we simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three potential sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technological, and product market ("horizontal"). To do so, we construct new measures of geographic proximity based on the...

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Elasticities of Regional and Local Administrations Expenditures - the Portuguese case

Mourão, Paulo Reis - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2005

This work analyses the evolution of real public expenditures of local and regional administrations (LRA), in Portugsl, in the period after the Second World War. It also aims to estimate the elasticities associated to determinants, which explain the found growth. As most relevant results, it is...

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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

geography. The same economic forces influence simulataneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering …

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Cross Country Growth Comparison: Theory to Empirics

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth û both empirical and theoretical û distinguish from previous work in three distinct...

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Mapping the Two Faces of R&D: Productivity Growth in a Panel of OECD Industries

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

capacity'). In this paper we document that there has been convergence of TFP within a panel of industries across thirteen OECD …

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Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology and Competition: Evidence from France

Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

productive. The formers' convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

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Asymmetry of Shocks and Convergence in Selected Asean Countries: A Dynamic Analysis

Cortinhas, Carlos - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2006

degree of convergence could be identified over time, distinguishing between a country’s convergence with a regional partner … and a more general trend of convergence with the rest of the world. The results showed that in the majority of cases there … has been an increase in the degree of convergence of demand shocks in recent years. More importantly, it also showed an …

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