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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301178
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Spatio-temporal Analysis of Regional Systems: A Multiregional Spatial Vector Autoregressive Model for Spain
Ramajo, Julian; Marquez, Miguel A.; Hewings, Geoffrey J.D. - 2013
This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397302
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Regional Airport Expansion: Expansions of Regional Airports and their Effect on the Local Economy
Breidenbach, Philipp - 2015
This paper exploits the deregulation of the European aviation market as a quasi-natural experiment to examine if the expansion of regional airports in Germany caused positive spillover effects on the surrounding economy. Such spillovers might justify the heavy subsidies which are transferred to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400601
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The language effect in international trade: A meta-analysis
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - 2011
Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280634
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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/10011325125
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Peaks vs. components
Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo; Weisbrod, Julian - 2010
We analyze the cross-national distribution of GDP per capita and its evolution from 1970 to 2003. We argue that peaks are not a suitable measure for distinct growth regimes, because the number of peaks is not invariant under strictly monotonic transformations of the data (e.g. original vs. log...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288996
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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269575
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Modelling the folk theorem of spatial economics: a heterogeneous regional growth model
Klarl, Torben - 2009
During the last year, the research field of spatial economic has rapidly increased. There is consensus that the economic performance of a region depends not only on its own potential, but also on the development of their neighbouring regions. Knowledge spillovers, which are non constant over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294691
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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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Does regional redistribution spur growth?
Koetter, Michael; Wedow, Michael - 2008
After the German reunification, interregional subsidies accounted for approximately four percent of gross fixed capital investment in the new federal states. We show that between 1992 and 2005 infrastructure and (small) business aid had a negative net impact on regional economic growth. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298745