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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Debate over Growth and Development are quite old in the history of economic thinking. It is argued that development encompasses comprehensive issues like health, education, equality, and liveability while growth is too narrow a concept. This paper analyses the growth and development experience...

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Removing poverty and inequality in India: the role of infrastructure

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this association is different across types of infrastructure and regions. The present paper explores the multidimensional association between infrastructure and poverty in India in a...

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Intergenerational mobility, composition of human capital and distance to frontier

Basu, Suajta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

An economy can improve its technology level through two channels -- imitating from the world technology frontier and innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based on the endogenous ability-driven skill acquisition...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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Has the empire struck back? ‘new paradigm’ globalisation or return to classical imperialism?

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

This article is a prepublication transcript of ‘Has the Empire Struck Back?’ in Albritton, R, Makoto Itoh, Richard Westra and Alan Zuege (eds) Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalization, pp195-215. London: McMillan. ISBN 0 33375 316 X The paper conducts an empirical...

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