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Regional economic growth and SMEs in Brazil : a spatial analysis

Cravo, Túlio - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector for a panel of 503 Brazilian micro-regions for the period 1980-2004 using panel spatial econometrics. It investigates the importance of the SME sector size measured by the share of the...

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What about regions in regional science? : an exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy

Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Cravo, Túlio - 2013

in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …

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The EU funding contribution to regional growth and regeneration in Romania : a focus on the North-East Region : 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 26-29...

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Goschin, Zizi; Ileanu, Bogdan - 2014 - Draft

Romania's communist regime used forced industrialization and urbanization policies as a solution for speeding-up the pace of development in the lagging areas, which resulted in reducing regional disparities. However, after 1989 there areas were the first that suffered the hardships of economic...

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The emergence of convergence clubs among Greek regions : 50th ERSA Congress, 19th - 23rd August 2010

Artelaris, Panagiotis; Kallioras, Dimitris; Petrakos, … - 2010

The evaluation of regional inequalities and the monitoring of their evolution (regional convergence/divergence analysis … appraises the effectiveness of regional policy. Extending the methodology of (regional) convergence clubs, the paper examines … for the existence of convergence clubs, in per capita GDP terms, among the NUTS III regions of Greece during the period …

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Profiles of local growth and industrial change : facts and an explanation

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2012

In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...

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Detecting the growth pattern(s) of the EU border regions : a convergence clubs approach

Artelaris, Panagiotis; Kallioras, Dimitris; Topaloglu, … - 2011

The EU regions have been experiencing a period of unprecedented change. The ongoing (and parallel) processes of EU integration and enlargement have progressively transformed regional economies to integral parts of the emerging (European) socio-economic space, exposing them to the forces and the...

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Implications of the latest enlargement on regional disparities and cohesion policy : a spotlight on the EU funds absorption : The 50th Congress of European Regional Science Associa...

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Drăgan, Gabriela; … - 2010

policy and is supported by the EU funds via allocations for convergence - competitiveness and employment - European … States (NMS) of the EU are a major beneficiary of these allocations, especially with regard to the convergence objective … the main issue is when and with which rate a process of regional convergence will occur, both inside each country and …

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The impact of Brazilian regional development funds on regional economic growth : a spatial panel approach : 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014 - Saint Petersburg, Russia

Cravo, Túlio; Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, … - 2014

In Brazil, the regional development policy is directed by the regional development funds for the Northeast (FNE), the North (FNO), and the Central-West (FCO), which invested more than ?36 billion in lagging regions between 2004 and 2010. This policy seeks to facilitate the economic and social...

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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012

The unprecedented economic rise of Eastern Europe and China in the last two decades has triggered concerns in developed Western market economies about adverse effects for domestic labor markets trough increased import competition. Simultaneously, exports from developed countries to these new...

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Long-term processes of regional concentration and dispersion-fuzzy evidence for Western German

Dauth, Wolfgang; Fuchs, Michaela; Otto, Anne - 2010 - Draft version

The description of geographical concentration and the search for its causes is at the focus of many studies. However, by not considering developments over an extended period of time, the majority of the studies mainly examine static relationships. This paper aims at filling this gap. We measure...

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