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Dependence of spatial effects on the level of regional aggregation, weights matrix, and estimation method

Bukina, Tatiana V.; Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; … - 2015

Researchers have repeatedly noted that the results in spatial-econometric studies depend significantly on the level of regional aggregation (Jacobs-Crisioni et al., 2014; Kang et al., 2014, Baltagi, Li, 2014). Currently, hierarchical models can contribute a lot to the studies of spatial effects...

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Evaluation tool for wider economic effects of railway investments : making computable general equilibrium model results accessible

Kinnunen, Jouko; Metsäranta, Heikki; Törmä, Hannu; … - 2015

Transport sector has a long tradition of using the principles of practical cost benefit analysis (CBA) in project appraisal that analyses the primary impacts of transport investments. The standard transport project assessment is necessary but not sufficient for the estimation of the wider...

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The EU funding contribution to regional growth and regeneration in Romania : a focus on the North-East Region : 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 26-29...

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Goschin, Zizi; Ileanu, Bogdan - 2014 - Draft

Romania's communist regime used forced industrialization and urbanization policies as a solution for speeding-up the pace of development in the lagging areas, which resulted in reducing regional disparities. However, after 1989 there areas were the first that suffered the hardships of economic...

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A new regional balance : challenges and opportunities for intermediate city regions in Europe : 54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P. - 2014 - Preliminary version

due to declining economic activity. The trend toward regional economic convergence has been interrupted, not only in a …

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Challenges in implementing Croatian regional policy within semi-European context : 52nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association Bratislava, Slovakia, 21st-25th August...

Fröhlich, Zlatan; Đokić, Irena - 2012

Croatia is geographically, historically and culturally a part of the European territory. Regions, as specific units within a national territory, are defined differently on EU level than in Croatia, where counties are far too small to be considered as regions in EU terms. The implementation of...

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The impact of structural and macroeconomic factors on regional productivity

D'Costa, Sabine; Garcilazo, Enrique; Oliveira-Martins, … - 2012

We aim to understand the impact of nation-wide structural policies such as product market regulation and employment protection legislation and that of macroeconomic factors such as trade exposure, inflation and the level of government debt on the economic growth of regions in the OECD. In...

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Knowledge, innovation and economic growth : spatial heterogeneity in Europe

Capello, Roberta; Lenzi, Camilla - 2012

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...

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<<Alternative models of rural growth and development : the case of wine production of VQPRD wine in the Naousa and Amynteon regions in Greece>>

Pitoska, Electra; Lazarides, Themistokles - 2010

Quality rural products in general and wine more specifically, acquire an increasingly important role in European Communities Rural Growth policies. This results from the fact that they have a commercial advantage over other products, they support rural income and the rural economy, contribute to...

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Development, growth and decline in Europe : new patterns of economic convergence and divergence? : 53th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2013 - Preliminary version

structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not … measure the impacts on regional convergence in a European (country wise) and urban-rural perspective. The first part of the … developments and perspectives until 2020. The second part considers the impact on the process of convergence of the current decline …

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The emergence of convergence clubs among Greek regions : 50th ERSA Congress, 19th - 23rd August 2010

Artelaris, Panagiotis; Kallioras, Dimitris; Petrakos, … - 2010

The evaluation of regional inequalities and the monitoring of their evolution (regional convergence/divergence analysis … appraises the effectiveness of regional policy. Extending the methodology of (regional) convergence clubs, the paper examines … for the existence of convergence clubs, in per capita GDP terms, among the NUTS III regions of Greece during the period …

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