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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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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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...

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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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Regional bank efficiency and its effect on regional growth in “normal” and “bad” times

Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Setzer, Ralph - 2015

The financial crisis affected regions in Europe in a different magnitude. This is why we examine whether regions which incorporate banks with a higher intermediation quality grow faster in “normal” times and are more resilient in “bad” ones. For this purpose, we measure the...

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Regional bank efficiency and its effect on regional growth in "normal" and "bad" times

Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Setzer, Ralph - 2015

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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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Agglomeration and growth in NEG : a critical assessment

Cerina, Fabio; Pigliaru, Francesco - In: New directions in economic geography, (pp. 130-167). 2007

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Technological diffusion, spatial spillovers and regional convergence in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Pigliaru, Francesco - In: Regional convergence in the European Union : facts, …, (pp. 273-292). 2002

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Technological diffusion, spatial spillovers and regional convergence in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2001

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