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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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Conceptualising rural-urban dynamics

Thomas, Alex M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper revisits the work of Richard Cantillon and Francois Quesnay in order to conceptualise the dynamics between rural and urban areas in an economy. Concepts of social surplus and economy as a circular flow are presented in order to highlight the interrelationship between the growth...

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Economic growth and the optimum size of government in 15 European countries: A threshold panel approach

Hajamini, Mehdi; Falahi, Mohammad Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In the growth literature, there is a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and government size, which is similar to an inverted U-shaped curve. This curve can be used to determine the optimum share of government expenditures. This paper, using threshold panel approach, attempts to...

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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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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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Economic growth dynamics across countries.

Ewa, Lechman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Economic growth is one of the most important issues discussed worldwide. Its dynamics over time seem to be crucial from the perspective of the ability of poor countries to catch up with highly developed economies. As can be easily noticed in world statistics, both GDP per capita and GDP growth...

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Foreign Aid, Legal Origin, Economic Growth and Africa’s Least Developed Countries

Wamboye, Evelyn; Adekola, Abel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The issue of foreign aid dependency in African countries remains controversial among policy makers. So far, there is no consensus on aid effectiveness and the resulting policy prescriptions have been conflicting. The Euro zone which provides the bulk of foreign aid to developing countries, is...

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Does financial sector development cause investment and growth? empirical analysis of the case of Ghana

Adam, Anokye M.; Siaw, Frimpong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article examines whether financial sector development has ‘caused’ economic growth and investment in Ghana between 1970 and 2007. As a proxy for financial sector development we use credit to private sector as per cent of GDP, bank liquid reserve – asset ratio and liquid liability as a...

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