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Regional income convergence in Europe : a Bayesian model averaging perspective : 52th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International August 21-25, 2012, Bratis...

Gmeinder, Michael; Piribauer, Philipp; Schoiswohl, Florian - 2012

The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …

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Persistence and change of regional new business formation in the national league table

Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - 2016

We investigate persistence and change of the levels of regional new business formation in West Germany over a period of thirty years. Our indicator is the position of a region in the national ranking. As indicated by previous studies, we generally find a rather high level of persistence and...

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Regionale Verteilung raumwirksamer finanzieller Staatshilfen im Kontext regionalwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung

Plankl, Reiner - 2012

Der Arbeitsbericht beschreibt unter Bezug auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung die regionale Verteilung regionalwirtschaftlich relevanter raumwirksamer finanzieller Staatshilfen in der Förderperiode 1995 bis 2008. Betrachtungseinheiten sind die Bundesländer sowie die ländlichen und nicht...

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Entrepreneurship, growth, regional growth regimes

Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - 2015

We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...

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Banking and industrialization

Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...

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The Determinants of productivity distribution across European regions

Fiaschi, Davide; Lavezzi, Andrea Mario; Parenti, Angela - 2010 - Preliminary version

distribution dynamics approach in order to analyse the role of some variables in the convergence of productivity across European … regions over the period 1980-2002. We find that the initial productivity crucially accounts in the convergence process across … statistically significant only for the least productive regions. The output composition of a region in 1980 affects the convergence …

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Impact of infrastructure investment on tax : estimating spillover effects of the Kyushu high-speed rail Line in Japan on regional tax revenue

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991, the Kyushu high-speed rail line was constructed and was completed in 2003. In 2004, the rail line started operating from Kagoshima to Kumamoto. The entire line was opened in...

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An impact evaluation of investment in infrastructure : the case of the railway connection in Uzbekistan

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2015

The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of our analysis is based on difference-in-difference estimation linking the changes in the growth rate of regional-level economic...

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Effects of infrastructure projects on government revenue : the case of expressway projects in the Northern Midland and Mountainous area of Viet Nam

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Truong Thi Hoa - 2020

This paper examines the effects of infrastructure projects on economic performance by studying the changes in government revenue in the Northern Midland and Mountainous region of Viet Nam. More specifically, this paper investigates the effects of two expressway projects, namely (1) the Noi...

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The elusive quest for the holy grail of an impact of EU funds on regional growth

Fidrmuc, Jan; Hulényi, Martin; Zajkowska, Olga - 2019

We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle the potential problem of endogeneity, and estimating a spatial model to account for inter-regional spillovers. We use the presence of environmentally protected areas (under the...

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