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Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

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 modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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Cultural diversity and economic performance : evidence from European regions

Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Pinelli, Dino; … - 2008

We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUT3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...

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Regional Growth and Migration : A Japan-U.S. Comparison

Barro, Robert J. - 1992

Do poor economies grow faster than rich ones? This important economic question (which we call [beta]-convergence) is … of convergence in both countries: poor prefectures and states grow faster. We also find that there is intraregional as … well as interregional convergence. We analyze the cross sectional standard deviation across prefectures and states. We find …

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