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This paper proposes a new method to measure and analyse the typology of regional economic growth and convergence The … disequilibrating characteristic of the economic growth within the space. In particular the inner dynamics of convergence property are …
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State owned enterprises and fiscal adjustment: an analysis of the contribution of the federal companies to macroeconomic equilibrium - This article expose a historical and empirical analysis of the transformations in the administration of the Brazilian state owned enterprises during the last 20...
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Using panel data, this paper explores the role of infrastructure and human capital in the convergence of income levels … reject the hypothesis of non-convergence in per capita incomes of UE countries, but the results do not support the hypothesis … that the speed of convergence is affected by infrastructures. …
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In this paper we estimate the current account of the balance of payments of Italy�s Southern and Northern regions for the period 1998-2000. In our scheme the General Government is considered as a non-resident institution; fiscal revenues and expenditure generate credits and debts in the...
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This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker), at economic sectors level of the NUTs III of mainland Portugal, from 1995 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2005 (taking in count the data availability and the Portuguese...
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The paper tried to contribute to the theory of the location of the bank services. At first, there was strong evidence showing that the bank location not only depended on economical factors. The developed model and the results found in the spatial econometrics analysis demonstrated that there is...
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Spatial convergence analysis of tax transfers from the Robin Hood Act - One alleges that the Robin Hood Act has allowed … ones. In doing methodologically so, an exploratory spatial data analysis and a convergence analysis are implemented to … were important in the analysis as well as there was no redistributive effect in the period because the convergence …
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This paper comments an important book by Maurice FG. Scott, «A New View of Economic Growth». The main contribution of the book is to show that capital investment can sustain endogenous growth, as it embodies technical progress. Neoclassical theories of growth are based on an error in...
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Following the growing interest towards the role of the knowledge in the modern economies the economic literature has focused a lot of studies into the role of the producers of new knowledge, e.g. universities and public research institutions. The relations between these bodies and the firms, the...
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In this paper we discuss procedural and contractual aspects of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in Italy, in the light of the economic theory of contracts and of incentives. We emphasize the potential role for PPPs for infrastructure development in Italy and the inefficiencies that arise in...
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