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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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Regional income convergence in Europe : a Bayesian model averaging perspective : 52th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International August 21-25, 2012, Bratis...

Gmeinder, Michael; Piribauer, Philipp; Schoiswohl, Florian - 2012

The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …

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Regional development and creativity

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2012

The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...

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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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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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Tourism and regional growth in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Marrocu, Emanuela - 2013

The paper aims at analysing the impact of domestic and international tourism on the economic growth process for 179 regions in ten European countries, which are highly representative of total tourism flows. The econometric analysis is carried out for the period 1999-2009 and it is based on a...

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Constrained variants of the gravity model and spatial dependence : model specification and estimation issues

Griffith, Daniel A.; Fischer, Manfred M. - In: Spatial econometric interaction modelling, (pp. 37-66). 2016

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Austrian outbound foreign direct investment in Europe : a spatial econometric study

Fischer, Manfred M.; Pintar, Nico; Sargant, Benedikt - 2016

The recent growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) has led to a proliferation of scholarly efforts to analyse the various dimensions of this phenomenon. Two main streams of research have emerged in the literature. The first analyses the economic effects of FDI inflows in the economy of the...

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Externalities, clusters and economic growth : the cluster policy paradox

Pessoa, Argentino - 2011

The literature on clustering has highlighted several advantages of industrial agglomerations. Persons and firms benefit from the production and innovation activities of neighbouring companies in the same and related industries. Considering such benefits, which are viewed as positive...

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