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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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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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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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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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Estimates of the impact of static and dynamic knowledge spillovers on regional factor productivity

Lesage, James P.; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2010

We develop an empirical approach to examine static and dynamic knowledge externalities in the context of a regional total factor productivity relationship. Static externalities refer to current period scale or industry-size effects which have been labeled localization externalities or...

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Research collaboration and regional knowledge production in Europe : paper to be presented at the 52nd European Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), 2...

Hidas, Slavomir; Wolska, Martyna; Fischer, Manfred M.; … - 2012

The focus of this study is on regional knowledge production activities in Europe, with special emphasis on the interplay between agglomeration and network effects. As increasingly considered in economic geography and regional science in the recent past, regional knowledge production activities,...

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