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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757366
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Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration
Stephan, Andreas; Happich, Michael; Geppert, Kurt - 2005
research. In this paper we examine whether there are overlapping trends of regional development in the EU: overall convergence … estimation, Markov chain analysis and cross-sectional regressions provide evidence that convergence of regional per-capita income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296348
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Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration
Geppert, Kurt; Happich, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2005
research. In this paper we examine whether there are overlapping trends of regional development in the EU: overall convergence … estimation, Markov chain analysis and cross-sectional regressions provide evidence that convergence of regional per-capita income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260880
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Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration
Stephan, Andreas; Happich, Michael; Geppert, Kurt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
research. In this paper we examine whether there are overlapping trends of regional development in the EU: overall convergence … estimation, Markov chain analysis and cross-sectional regressions provide evidence that convergence of regional per-capita income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216840
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Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration
Geppert, Kurt; Happich, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
research. In this paper we examine whether there are overlapping trends of regional development in the EU: overall convergence … estimation, Markov chain analysis and cross-sectional regressions provide evidence that convergence of regional per-capita income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068841
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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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Does fiscal decentralisation foster regional investment in productive infrastructure?
Kappeler, Andreas; Solé-Ollé, Albert; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of revenue decentralization on the provision of infrastructure at the sub-national level. We estimate the effects of revenue decentralization and earmarked grant financing on the level of sub-national infrastructure investment in 20 European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579228
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Does fiscal decentralization foster regional investment in productive infrastructure?
Kappeler, Andreas; Solé-Ollé, Albert; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2012
Spending on productive infrastructure is seen as an important contributor to long term economic growth. Several authors have documented a downward trend in public investment during the last three decades and warned about its possible detrimental effects on the economy. A not well-realized fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522639
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608798
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New evidence on the convergence and regional clusters in China : a weighted continuous distribution dynamics approach
Wu, Jianxin; Wu, Yanrui; Cheong, Tsun Se - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 8, pp. 976-995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425445