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LIBERALIZATION, PUBLIC SPENDING AND CONVERGENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: AN SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC MODEL

Jorge E, Mendoza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

results showed conditional convergence for the region from 1950 to 1975, and both absolute and conditional divergence from …

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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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Testing for Stochastic and Beta-convergence in Latin American Countries

Escobari, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper uses time-series data from nineteen Latin American countries and the U.S. to test for income convergence … using two existing definitions of convergence and a new testable definition of β-convergence. Only Dominican Republic and … convergence exists when allowing for structural breaks using the two-break minimum LM unit root of Lee and Strazicich (2003). The …

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Convergence Clubs determined by Economic History in Latin America

Quiroga, Barrientos; Andrea, Paola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The concept of club convergence has been widely used in empirical analysis to group countries in clubs with similar … test convergence within each club. I find significant and positive convergence speed within each of the clubs, implying …

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Mise au point d'un modèle de conjoncture des régions françaises : le modèle MDR ; rapport final

Catin, Maurice; Lesueur, Jean-Yves - 1985

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Innovation and the growth of cities

Ács, Zoltán J. - 2002

Machine generated contents note: 1 Technology and entrepreneurship 1 -- 2 Knowledge, innovation and firm size 24 -- 3 Local geographic spillovers 44 -- 4 Sectoral characteristics 63 -- 5 Innovation of entrepreneurial firms 74 -- 6 Capital structure, innovation and firm size 98 -- 7 Employment...

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Agglomeration, clusters and entrepreneurship : studies in regional economic development

Johansson, Börje (contributor); … - 2014

Regional economic development has experienced considerable dynamism over recent years. Perhaps the most notable cases were the rise of China and India to emergent country status by the turn of the millennium. With time now for hindsight, this book identifies some of the key forces behind these...

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Economic growth and change : national and regional patterns of convergence and divergence

Pigliaru, Francesco (contributor); Adams, John (contributor) - 1999

authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering global …

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Knowledge, innovation and space

Karlsson, Charlie (contributor) - 2014

This volume extends our understanding of the many different ways in which distance impacts the knowledge conversion process. While addressing different facets of knowledge, innovation and space, the authors provide an overview of relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with the...

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Handbook of regional growth and development theories

Nijkamp, Peter (contributor); Capello, Roberta (contributor) - 2009

Regional economics - an established discipline for several decades - has gone through a rapid pace of change in the past decade and several new perspectives have emerged. At the same time the methodology has shown surprising development. This volume brings together contributions looking at new...

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