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Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches

Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008

This paper analyses the growth e®ects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using...

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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...

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

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

Which is the Right Dose of EU Cohesion Policy for Economic Growth?

Hagen, Tobias; Mohl, Philipp - 2009

The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European regions mainly relies on functional form assumptions. However, it is ex ante not clear which functional form is appropriate with regard to the relationship between structural funds...

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Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches

Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008

This paper analyses the growth effects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1/NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using structural...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213069

How does EU cohesion policy work? : evaluating its effects on fiscal outcome variables

Hagen, Tobias; Mohl, Philipp - 2009

The impact of EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated with regard to its growth effects. We extend the perspective by investigating the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on public investments and budget deficits in order to learn more about the channels through which this policy field works....

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How Does EU Cohesion Policy Work? Evaluating its Effects on Fiscal Outcome Variables

Mohl, Philipp - 2009

The impact of the EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated by analysing its growth effects. However, this perspective neglects that the EU support might affect other policy fields as well. There are at least two reasons why the impact on public investment should be of special interest. First...

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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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