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HALF LIFE OR HALF CONVERGENCE? ENDOGENOUS IDENTIFICATION OF REGIONAL CLUBS ACROSS EUROPE 1980-2002
Battisti, Michele; Vaio, Granfranco Di - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera …
Assessing regional growth and convergence across Europe is a matter of primary importance, either in light of the … structural heterogeneities and spatial effects could fail to detect club convergence phenomena. In this paper, we adopt a … spatially filtered mixture regression approach that endogenously identifies regional clubs of beta-­convergence, in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756561
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Entrepreneurship and Local Growth - a comparison of the U.S. and Sweden
Borgman, Benny; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
The U.S. is traditionally viewed as an economy driven by entrepreneurs, whereas the Swedish model is associated with high welfare ambitions and less focus on entrepreneurial activities. This paper seeks to empirically investigate whether the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644926
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Knowledge flows, knowledge externalities and regional economic development
Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
New knowledge generated by an economic agent in a region will tend over time to flow to other economic agents in the same region but also to economic agents in other regions. It is quite common in the literature to use the concept of knowledge spillovers for such knowledge flows, irrespective of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742097
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U.S. Regional Population Growth 2000-2010: Natural Amenities or Urban Agglomeration?
Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Using a spatial hedonic growth model, this paper empirically examines the relative roles of natural amenities and urban agglomeration economies as determinants of U.S. regional growth patterns from 2000 to 2010. Natural amenities and urban agglomeration are measured using the USDA Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112539
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Institutions and geography: Empirical test of spatial growth models for European regions
Arbia, Giuseppe; Battisti, Michele; Di Vaio, Gianfranco - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2009
the regional output per worker and raises the speed of convergence. By contrast, the pure geographical metrics is … underperforming, while underestimating the convergence dynamics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855341
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Regional convergence and the causal impact of migration on regional growth rates
Kirdar, Murat; Saracoglu, Sirin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
convergence in per capita income levels and that migration has a negative causal impact on regional growth rates. Although the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619903
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Migration and Regional Convergence: An Empirical Investigation for Turkey
Kirdar, Murat; Saracoglu, Sirin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
convergence in per capita income levels and that migration has a negative causal impact on regional growth rates. Although the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621477
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Lake Amenities, Environmental Degradation, and Great Lakes Regional Growth
Stephens, Heather; Partridge, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Regional migration and growth are increasingly associated with high-quality in situ natural amenities. However, most of the previous U.S. research has focused on the natural amenities of the Mountain West or the South. The Great Lakes, with their abundant fresh water and natural amenities, would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109109