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What can the EMU's peripheral countries learn from regional growth?

Aiginger, Karl; Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013

The experiences of 259 regions in 21 European countries with within country GDP per capita and labour productivity growth suggest that variables associated with pro-active, growth oriented strategies are consistently more important predictors of successful regional development than variables...

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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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Selective migration, regional growth and convergence : evidence from Italy

Fratesi, Ugo; Percoco, Marco - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 10, pp. 1650-1668

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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 - 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....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592920

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423168

Unconditional convergence in currency unions : an analysis of European regions from 1991 to 2009

Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013

We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous … studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely … question the focus of the traditional literature on average (beta-)convergence and suggest substantial non-linearities in …

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What Can the Emu's Peripheral Countries Learn from Regional Growth?

Huber, Peter; Firgo, Matthias; Aiginger, Karl - 2014

The experiences of 259 regions in 21 European countries with within country GDP per capita and labour productivity growth suggest that variables associated with proactive, growth oriented strategies are consistently more important predictors of successful regional development than variables...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149369

Local labour markets and the interregional mobility of Italian university students

Dotti, Nicola Francesco; Fratesi, Ugo; Lenzi, Camilla; … - In: Spatial economic analysis : the journal of the Regional … 8 (2013) 4, pp. 443-468

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One policy, different effects : estimating the region-specific impacts of EU cohesion policy

Di Caro, Paolo; Fratesi, Ugo - In: Journal of regional science 62 (2022) 1, pp. 307-330

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