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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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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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Urban-Biased Growth : A Macroeconomic Analysis

Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...

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Breaking the cycle : a strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth in Burundi

Baghdadli, Ilhem (contributor) - 2008

A strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth -- Burundi's growth -- Agricultural recovery : food security and beyond -- Export crops : toward a significant contribution to growth -- Overcoming the main obstacles to growth

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The Challenges of Economic Maturity : New England, 1880 - 1940

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 1999

This paper provides an account of the complex changes taking place within New England in the years from 1880 to 1940. After 1880, technological changes and market shifts undermined the sources of comparative advantage that had promoted the concentration of textile and footwear production within...

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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces

Helliwell, John F. - 1996

The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the United States. The ethnic categories people choose to describe themselves are as important as regional differences, but much less important than education, in explaining...

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Trends in Regional Inequality in China

Jian, Tianlun - 1996

Several recent studies have examined the tendency of regions within a nation to exhibit long-term convergence in per … capita income levels. Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991, 1992, 1995) have found a tendency towards convergence among the U … convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China …

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Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1995

We examine the relationship between urban characteristics in 1960 and urban growth (income and population) between 1960 and 1990. Our major findings are that income and population growth move together and both types of growth are (1) positively related to initial schooling, (2) negatively...

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Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance

Levitt, Steven D. - 1994

This paper tests several theories of the effects of congressional representation on state economic growth. States that were represented by very senior Democratic congressmen grew more quickly during the 1953-1990 period than states that were represented by more junior congressional delegations....

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Endogenous Growth, Public Capital, and the Convergence of Regional Manufacturing Industries

Hulten, Charles R. - 1993

after World War II. The convergence hypothesis suggests that the success of the South in catching up to the Northeast and … technological convergence explains the regional evolution of U.S. manufacturing industry, or that endogenous growth was an important …

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