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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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Quasi-experimental methods in empirical regional science and policy analysis : is there a scope for application?

Mitze, Timo; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Alecke, Björn - 2012

Applied econometrics has recently emphasized the identification of causal parameters for policy analysis. This revolution has yet to fully propagate to the field of regional science. We examine the scope for application of the matching approach – part of the modern applied econometrics toolkit...

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Economic integration and growth at the margin : a space-time incremental impact analysis

Mitze, Timo; Breidenbach, Philipp - 2018

We use the case of EU enlargement in 2004 to investigate the impact of economic integration on regional income growth. Being particularly interested in studying the effects ‘at the margin’, we track the relative performance of regions adjacent to both sides of the integration border...

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More publicly funded research, more knowledge spillovers, more economic growth? : an empirical analysis for German regions

Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas; Mitze, Timo - 2018

This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research on regional technological progress and economic growth. We adopt a system approach and investigate the effects on all regional input factors and output by means of a flexible spatial panel VAR (SpPVAR) model. This allows us to deal...

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Local government debt and economic growth in China

Wu, Yanrui - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 18 (2020) 3, pp. 229-242

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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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Evolution of carbon dioxide emissions in Chinese cities : trends and transitional dynamics

Cheong, Tsun Se; Wu, Yanrui; Wu, Jianxin - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 21 (2016) 3, pp. 357-377

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Regional disparity, transitional dynamics and convergence in China

Cheong, Tsun Se; Wu, Yanrui - In: Journal of Asian economics 29 (2013), pp. 1-14

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Decentralization and growth : do informal institutions and rule of law matter?

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco; Carmeci, Gaetano - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 40 (2018) 5, pp. 873-902

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