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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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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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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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Agency Conflicts, Expropriation and Firm Value: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China
Henk, Berkman; Rebel, Cole; Fu, Lawrence - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In this study, we examine the wealth effects of regulatory changes intended to improve corporate governance by protecting minority shareholders from expropriation by controlling shareholders. Using data from publicly traded Chinese firms, we find that these new regulations significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260290
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China's Regional Convergence in Panels with Multiple Structural Breaks
Matsuki, Takashi; Usami, Ryoichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This study investigates the existence of regional convergence of per capita outputs in China from 1952 …’s provincial real per capita outputs to examine the regional convergence in China. To obtain the p-values of unit root tests for … Carlo simulation. The results obtained from this study reveal that the convergence of the provincial per capita outputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621418
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Political connections and minority-shareholder protection: Evidence from securities-market regulation in China
Berkman, Henk; Cole, Rebel; Fu, Lawrence - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We examine the wealth effects of three regulatory changes designed to improve minorityshareholder protection in the Chinese stock markets. Using the value of a firm’s related-party transactions as an inverse proxy for the quality of corporate governance, we find that firms with weaker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622187
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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
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The Long-Term Effects of Protestant Activities in China
Chen, Yuyu; Wang, Hui; Yan, Se - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Does culture, and in particular religion, exert an independent causal effect on long-term economic growth, or do culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258769