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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...

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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)...

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An integrated approach to the Paris climate Agreement : the role of regions and cities

Matsumoto, Tadashi; Allain-Dupré, Dorothée; Crook, … - 2019

Following the historic 2015 Paris Agreement aiming to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, 165 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, representing 192 countries, have been submitted. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) detail each...

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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....

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Ethnic favoritism : an axiom of politics?

De Luca, Giacomo; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2015

We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...

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The link between regional temperature and regional income : econometric evidence with sub-national data

Greßer, Christina; Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2020

We study the effect of temperature on economic development on the sub-national level, employing cross-sectional data for up to 15,533 sub-national units from two distinct sources. In contrast to the existing cross-country literature on the temperature-income relationship, our setting allows us...

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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...

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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development

Auer, Raphael A. - 2012

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...

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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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Decentralization and natural disasters

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013

This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...

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