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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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A retrospective study on the regional benefits and spillover effects of high-speed broadband networks : evidence from German counties
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Gugler, Klaus - 2019 - This version: May 2019
There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth levels, influence GDP growth, or on the extent of spatial externalities at a regional level. Our study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029109
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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/10011592920
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Is temperature adversely related to economic growth? : evidence on the short-run and the long-run links from sub-national data
Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2021
We investigate the effect of rising temperatures on economic development, using sub-national data for approximately 1,500 sub-national regions in 81 countries from the 1950s to the 2010s. Accounting for region- and time-fixed factors by means of a two-way fixed effects panel approach, we find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660336
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Evaluating multiple spatial dimensionsof economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data models (1970-2000)
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; … - 2015
convergence hypothesis cannot be rejected suggesting there are differences in the convergence processes between the north and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056555
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European Union cohesion project characteristics and regional economic growth
Darvas, Zsolt M.; Mazza, Jan; Midões, Catarina - 2021
Due to problems with existing methodologies that aim to identify the causal impact of European Union cohesion policy on economic growth, we adopted a novel methodology. We first estimated 'unexplained economic growth' by controlling for the influence of various region-specific factors, and then...
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Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; … - 2019
This paper revisits the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity issue stemming from reverse causality and unobserved factors that has plagued previous extensive literature on this subject. In our approach, we use the Geographic Fragmentation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107011
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On the water-energy-food nexus: is there multivariate convergence?
Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021
This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results reveal that there is evidence of sigma- absolute beta- and conditional beta-convergence … impact of each variable on the others in the analyzed countries. The speed of convergence is simulated to assess when the …
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Do higher public debt levels reduce economic growth?
Heimberger, Philipp - 2021
While the effect of higher public debt levels on economic growth has received much attention, the literature partly points to contradictory results. This paper applies meta-regression methods to 826 estimates from 48 primary studies. The unweighted mean of the reported results suggests: a 10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665220
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Impact of climate change on economic growth : a case study of India
Sandhani, Medhavi; Pattanayak, Anubhab; Kumar, K. S. Kavi - 2020
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