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Regional growth and national development: transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the regional Kuznets curve in the East and the West

Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …

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A spatial model of regional per capita product: empirical evidence from the Spanish provinces, "comarcas" and municipalities

Alañon Pardo, Angel - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2004) 4, pp. 99-114

This paper presents a model which explains per capita regional product as a function of spatial and non spatial variables. Spatial variables may act within and beyond its territory and are related to spatial phenomena such as spatial external economies or expenditure urban multipliers. The model...

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Spatio-temporal Analysis of Regional Systems: A Multiregional Spatial Vector Autoregressive Model for Spain

RAMAJO, JULIAN; MARQUEZ, MIGUEL A.; HEWINGS, GEOFFREY J.D. - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...

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Knowledge flows, knowledge externalities and regional economic development

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Institutionen för Industriell Ekonomi, Blekinge … - 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...

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Modelling the folk theorem of spatial economics: a heterogeneous regional growth model

Klarl, Torben - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

During the last year, the research field of spatial economic has rapidly increased. There is consensus that the economic performance of a region depends not only on its own potential, but also on the development of their neighbouring regions. Knowledge spillovers, which are non constant over...

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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...

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Knowledge flows, knowledge externalities and regional economic development

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

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Technological spillovers and industrial growth in Chinese regions

Wang, Lili; Meijers, Huub; Szirmai, Eddy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper focuses on the role of interregional technology spillovers in the process of industrial growth in Chinese regions in the period 1990-2005. Inflows of FDI increased rapidly from 1990 till 1998, slowing down thereafter. Domestic R&D investment accelerated after 1998. Regional industrial...

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Spatial distribution of innovative activities and economic performances: A geographical-friendly model

BROUILLAT, Eric; LUNG, Yannick - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2010

The paper identifies 5 stylized facts to characterize the geographic distribution of innovative activities in France (mainly its high concentration in the region Ile-de-France). It proposes an original model of regional growth in a knowledge-based economy considering the density of RD activities...

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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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