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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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Fiscal Decentralization and Macroeconomic Stability: Theory and Evidence from Pakistan

Iqbal, Nasir; Nawaz, Saima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The research on the relationship between macroeconomic stability and fiscal decentralization has been rather inconclusive about the benefits of fiscal decentralization. The current paper is the first to investigate the effect of fiscal decentralization on macroeconomic stability by using Misery...

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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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Some non Price Factors that Fend off Unemployment in Pakistan

Hassan, Muhammad shahid; Wajid, Ayesha; Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The study empirically analyzed the impact of financial development; foreign direct investment and urban population as share of total population on unemployment in Pakistan for the period from 1973 – 2010. Empirical findings of this study suggest that financial development does reduce...

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Democracy, Autocracy and Macroeconomic Performance in Pakistan

Iqbal, Nasir; Khan, Sardar Javaid Iqbal; Irfan, Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Pakistan showed a healthy growth rate of 5.6 percent during the entire history and faced many ups and down in the economic growth due to dramatic changes in the political regimes. The literature shows mixed results regarding the impact of autocracy or democracy on economic growth. The aggregate...

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Exchange Rate and Economic Growth in Pakistan (1975-2011)

Ahmad, Arslan; Ahmad, Najid; Ali, Sharafat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of inflation, nominal exchange rate, FDI and capital stock on economic growth of Pakistan by using time series data for the period of 1975-2011. Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) test is applied to check the stationary of variables. All variables found stationary...

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