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Guns, highways and economic growth in the United States

Kollias, Christos; Paleologou, Suzanna-Maria - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 449-455

Given its significant policy implications, the nexus between public expenditures and economic growth has been the subject of an extensive and often emotive theoretical and empirical debate. The nexus between two types of public expenditures and economic growth is examined in this paper using...

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Time stability of the beta convergence among EU countries: Bayesian model averaging perspective

Próchniak, Mariusz; Witkowski, Bartosz - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 322-333

This paper analyzes the time stability of the GDP beta convergence in two subsamples: EU27 countries during 1993 … compared with the widely cited 2% rate of convergence. (2) The pure mechanism of conditional convergence of the countries under … study was rather constant over time: there were periods of more rapid or slower convergence but the differences were not as …

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Low climate stabilisation under diverse growth and convergence scenarios

Criqui, Patrick; Gonzalez-Eguino, Mikel; Markandaya, Anil; … - HAL - 2014

and convergence levels. A partial equilibrium model (POLES) of the world's energy system is used to provide detailed … global growth. Convergence in living standards on the other hand places greater pressures in terms of the required reduction …

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Institutions and geography: Empirical test of spatial growth models for European regions

Arbia, Giuseppe; Battisti, Michele; Di Vaio, Gianfranco - In: Economic Modelling 27 (2010) 1, pp. 12-21

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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Knowledge Structure and Regional Economic Growth: The French case

Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2011

The paper investigate the effects of knowledge on economic growth at the regional level Methodology approach: We elaborate a view on knowledge as the result of a combinatorial search activity and implement indicators synthesizing the network architecture of knowledge structure Findings:...

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Knowledge Coherence, Variety and economic Growth: Manufacturing Evidence from Italian Regions

Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2010

This paper elaborates a view on knowledge as a result of a combinatorial search activity, so as to investigate its effects on economic growth at the regional level. Empirical estimations corroborate the hypothesis that knowledge coherence and variety, besides the traditional measure of knowledge...

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Growth and Foreign Direct Investment in the Pacific Island countries

Feeny, Simon; Iamsiraroj, Sasi; McGillivray, Mark - In: Economic Modelling 37 (2014) C, pp. 332-339

Achieving sustained high rates of economic growth in Pacific countries has proved incredibly challenging. Despite many being rich in natural resources, receiving high levels of foreign aid and being open to external trade, the economic growth rates of Pacific Island countries are the lowest and...

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Corruption and growth: The role of governance, public spending, and economic development

Dzhumashev, Ratbek - In: Economic Modelling 37 (2014) C, pp. 202-215

This paper analyses how the quality of governance, the size of public spending, and economic development affect the relationship between bureaucratic corruption and economic growth. The analysis shows that the interaction between corruption and governance shapes the efficiency of public...

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Measuring absorptive capacity constraints to foreign aid

Feeny, Simon; de Silva, Ashton - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 3, pp. 725-733

To assist with progress towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in developing countries, the international community is scaling-up foreign aid to record levels. Concurrently, there are concerns that additional aid will not be used effectively due to a problem of absorptive...

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Tourism–growth nexus in Pakistan: Evidence from ARDL bounds tests

Jalil, Abdul; Mahmood, Tahir; Idrees, Muhammad - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 185-191

This study is an attempt to test the long run relationship between international tourism and economic growth of Pakistan by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) models over the period of 1972 to 2011. The initial results show that the causality runs from tourism to economic growth....

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