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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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How fast are the tourism countries growing? : the cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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Local government debt and economic growth in China

Wu, Yanrui - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 18 (2020) 3, pp. 229-242

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Is public investment in construction and in R&D, growth enhancing? : a PVAR approach

Afonso, António; Rodrigues, Eduardo de Sá Fortes Leitão - 2022

We study the impacts of public investment, notably in construction and in R&D on economic growth and of crowding-out effects on private investment. For this purpose, we use Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) models and the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) approach for 40 advanced and emerging...

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Is Public Investment in Construction and in R&D, Growth Enhancing? A PVAR Approach

Afonso, António; Sá Fortes Leitao Rodrigues, Eduardo de - 2022

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Technological diffusion, spatial spillovers and regional convergence in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2001

convergence of GDP per worker observed across the European regions, in the absence of data on regional TFP. Second, the spatial … regional convergence in Europe. As for the first issue, our aim is to assess whether the convergence observed across European … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …

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Evolution of carbon dioxide emissions in Chinese cities : trends and transitional dynamics

Cheong, Tsun Se; Wu, Yanrui; Wu, Jianxin - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 21 (2016) 3, pp. 357-377

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Regional disparity, transitional dynamics and convergence in China

Cheong, Tsun Se; Wu, Yanrui - In: Journal of Asian economics 29 (2013), pp. 1-14

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Decentralization and growth : do informal institutions and rule of law matter?

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco; Carmeci, Gaetano - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 40 (2018) 5, pp. 873-902

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Convergence and transitional dynamics of China's industrial output : a county-level study using a new framework of distribution dynamics analysis

Cheong, Tsun Se; Wu, Yanrui - In: China economic review : an international journal 48 (2018), pp. 125-138

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