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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 …

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Measuring ethno-linguistic affinity between nations

de Groot, Olaf J. - 2009

Research on ethno-linguistic ties has so far mostly focused on domestic measures of ethno-linguistic heterogeneity. Little attention has been given to the possibility that ethno-linguistic relations between countries may affect out- comes, particularly in a spatial econometric context. In this...

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Nested stochastic possibility frontiers with heterogeneous capital inputs

Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - 2007

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or non-neutralities...

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Technological change and transition: relative contributions to worldwide growth during the 1990s

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Zelenyuk, Valentin - 2007

In this paper we used the procedures developed in the Kumar and Russell (2002) growth-accounting study to examine cross-country growth during the 1990's. Using a data set comprising developed, newly industrialized, developing and transitional economies, we decomposed the growth of output per...

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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all …

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How many bucks in a bang: on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict

de Groot, Olaf J.; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of...

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Violent conflict and inequality

Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010

This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising...

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Economic convergence and rent-seeking in Iran

Dreger, Christian; Rahmani, Teymur; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - 2007

The neoclassical growth model predicts convergence of productivity or per capita output levels across regions. If … participation in the labor force is constant, convergence of per capita income is implied. We investigate this hypothesis for the … support absolute ß-convergence across Iran's provinces and provide some evidence on the adverse effect of rent seeking on …

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Are geese flying by themselves inside China? An LSTR-SEM approach to income convergence of Chinese counties

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Girardin, Eric - 2011

In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the … spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by … model the estimated convergence rate is 0.8% for unconditional regression and 1.7% for condtional regression, the …

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Hysteresis and fiscal policy

Engler, Philipp; Tervala, Juha - 2016

Empirical studies support the hysteresis hypothesis that recessions have a permanent effect on the level of output. We analyze the implications of hysteresis for fiscal policy in a DSGE model. We assume a simple learning-by-doing mechanism where demand-driven changes in employment can affect the...

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