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A new regional balance : regional specialization and growth : an analysis of spatial divergence in Northern Europe

Cornett, Andreas P. - 2015 - Extended abstract

Changing pattern of global specialization and trade has affected the regional economic landscape in Europe significantly during the last decades, often even more than endogenous factors or policy measures. After a period of conversion, processes of diversion has reentered the scene, particularly...

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A new regional balance : challenges and opportunities for intermediate city regions in Europe : 54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P. - 2014 - Preliminary version

due to declining economic activity. The trend toward regional economic convergence has been interrupted, not only in a …

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The impact of structural and macroeconomic factors on regional productivity

D'Costa, Sabine; Garcilazo, Enrique; Oliveira-Martins, … - 2012

We aim to understand the impact of nation-wide structural policies such as product market regulation and employment protection legislation and that of macroeconomic factors such as trade exposure, inflation and the level of government debt on the economic growth of regions in the OECD. In...

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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...

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Development, growth and decline in Europe : new patterns of economic convergence and divergence? : 53th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2013 - Preliminary version

structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not … measure the impacts on regional convergence in a European (country wise) and urban-rural perspective. The first part of the … developments and perspectives until 2020. The second part considers the impact on the process of convergence of the current decline …

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The emergence of new regional convergence clubs in a Nordic and Baltic perspective : 50th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2010 - First draft

The spatial patterns of changes in economic diversion and convergence have become more blurred in the last decades … traditional way to analyze convergence and disparities based on consolidated national or geographical based groups of regions. The … analyzed. Section 2 provides a survey of regional growth performance with special attention on divergence and convergence based …

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Quality of government and the returns of investment : examining the impact of cohesion expenditure in European regions

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Garcilazo, Enrique - 2013

This paper sets out to examine the impact of the quality of local and regional governments on the returns of investment, focusing on the returns of EU structural and cohesion funds. Despite the widespread belief that the quality of government affects the returns of public investments, whether...

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Growth trends and characteristics of OECD rural regions

Garcilazo, Enrique - 2013

This paper benchmarks the performance of OECD rural regions with other types of OECD regions over the period 1995-2010. OECD regions are classified into three types according to the OECD regional typology and into four types according to the extended OECD typology. The latter classifies rural...

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Cross-sectional space-time modeling using ARNN(p, n) processes

Kakamu, Kazuhiko; Polasek, Wolfgang - 2007

We suggest a new class of cross-sectional space-time models based on local AR models and nearest neighbors using distances between observations. For the estimation we use a tightness prior for prediction of regional GDP forecasts. We extend the model to the model with exogenous variable model...

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Human capital and regional growth in Switzerland

Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2010

This paper develops a regional production function model for Swiss cantons that incorporates human capital together with spatial effects. Within a spatial panel framework we find that controlling for time effects the spatial spillover effect becomes insignificant. Our results are sensitive with...

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