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The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over recent decades. The innovative focus of this paper concerns the role of the service sector in this relationship at a regional level. Services play a core role in advanced economies,...
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We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development. What is the state of empirical research in this field,...
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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...
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Economic convergence: a regional and subregional view Manuel Pérez Montiel Gislaine Cristina de Souza Rech Judite … Sanson de Bem The study of economic convergence among nations is based on the initial work of Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991 …), a topic of spatial econometric analysis Recently, research on economic convergence have been directed towards smaller …
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While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU … towards economic convergence on a national scale between 2000 and 2011, mainly caused by the rapid growth of the most lagging … countries. On a regional scale, however, the process of convergence was much slower and almost came to an end after the …
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investigates the hypothesis of absolute and conditional convergence of income among the Brazilian states from 1994 to 2010. The … the second step we test the convergence hypothesis to corroborate the existence of absolute and conditional convergence … among Brazilian regions. The speed of convergence is estimated by neoclassical model. The model of absolute convergence …
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This paper analyses to what extent the Spanish provinces have shown a convergence process since 1980 to nowadays. The … exitence of a unique convergence process between them. Rather, we can observe the existence of differentiated clubs up to 2007 …
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