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Regional Infrastructure and Convergence: Growth Implications in a Spatial Framework

Bo, Chiara Del; Florio, Massimo; Manzi, Giancarlo - In: Transition Studies Review 17 (2010) 3, pp. 475-493

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Tax policy and state economic growth: The long-run and short-run of it

Ojede, Andrew; Yamarik, Steven - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 2, pp. 161-165

This paper uses a pooled mean group (PMG) estimator to evaluate the effects of tax policy on state-level growth. We find that property and sales tax rates have negative effects on long-run income growth, while income tax rates have no impact.

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Proximity and growth spillovers in European regions: The role of geographical, economic and technological linkages

Benos, Nikos; Karagiannis, Stelios; Karkalakos, Sotiris - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 43 (2015) C, pp. 124-139

This study examines the role of proximity in regional growth using a multi-dimensional framework, for seven EU countries during 1990–2005. We incorporate geographical as well as economic and technological effects in two seminal growth models in order to test for the existence and magnitude of...

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The effect of EU structural funds on regional growth: assessing the evidence from Greece, 1990–2005

Lolos, Sarantis - In: Economic Change and Restructuring 42 (2009) 3, pp. 211-228

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Solow and the states: New evidence

Yamarik, Steven - In: Regional Studies 40 (2006) 6, pp. 571-582

convergence in state-level growth rates is found. Second, the rate of convergence and capital share are inversely related …. Moreover, numerical computations show that the estimated values for the convergence rate and capital share are consistent with … fortes preuves en faveur de la convergence des taux de croissance sur le plan des etats. Dans un deuxieme temps, le taux de …

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Is Migration Important for Regional Convergence? Comparative Evidence for Norwegian and Swedish Counties, 1980-2000

Østbye, Stein; Westerlund, Olle - In: Regional Studies 41 (2007) 7, pp. 901-915

Østbye S. and Westerlund O. (2007) Is migration important for regional convergence? Comparative evidence for Norwegian … and Swedish counties, 1980-2000 Regional Studies 41, 901-915. Regional convergence studies have relied on net migration … justified and, despite Sweden and Norway being similar in many ways, migration has very different effects on convergence in …

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Growth, development, and innovation: A look backward and forward

Cheshire, Paul; Malecki, Edward - In: Economics of Governance 83 (2003) 1, pp. 249-267

This article reviews where we have come from and where we are going in research on regional growth and development. Our object of study is the region, an imprecise term that has been taken to mean areas as large as small countries or as small as urban regions, although how regions are defined...

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Temple, … - In: Handbook of Economic Growth

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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Social capital, economic growth and regional development

Iyer, Sriya; Kitson, Michael; Toh, Bernard - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 8, pp. 1015-1040

Iyer S., Kitson M. and Toh B. (2005) Social capital, economic growth and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1015-1040. This paper examines the relationships between social capital, economic performance and regional development, and it stresses the complexity and variability across space...

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Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter H.; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 4, pp. 648-668

and the Cohesion Fund. The main goal of the associated transfers is to facilitate convergence of poor regions (in terms of … would lead to higher aggregate growth in the EU and could generate even faster convergence than the current scheme does. …

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