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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? An empirical analysis for Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...

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Markov or not Markov - this should be a question

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence …

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Spatial effects of foreign direct investment in US states

Bode, Eckhardt; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Waldkirch, Andreas - 2009

This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct investments (FDI) in the US. In contrast to earlier work, this paper puts special emphasis on controlling for Marshallian externalities and other intra- and inter-regional spillovers...

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The Dynamic Effects of Public Capital: VAR Evidence for 22 OECD Countries

Kamps, Christophe - 2004

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet, empirical analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock estimates are available. Building on a new database that...

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Bananas, oil, and development: examining the resource curse and its transmission channels by resource type

Lay, Jann; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2004

This paper examines the resource curse and its transmission channels by resource type. We review and synthesize existing theories of the transmission channels of the curse. This synthesis suggests that (1) relating the transmission channels to the characteristics of different types of resources,...

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Does aid for education educate children? Evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2006

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...

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Aid and growth accelerations: An alternative approach to assess the effectiveness of aid

Dovern, Jonas; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2006

It continues to be heavily disputed whether foreign aid promotes economic growth in developing countries. In most cross-country regressions, aid is considered effective only if it shifts recipient countries to a significantly higher and sustainable growth path. We apply an alternative approach...

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OLS-Estimation of conditional and unconditional sigma- and beta-convergence of per capita income: Implications of Solow-Swan and Ramsey-Cass models

Maurer, Rainer - 1995

section 2) and the implications of the Solow-Swan and Ramsey-Cass model for an OLS-estimation of beta- and sigma-convergence … unconditional sigma- and beta-convergence. The discussion of the statistical relations exhibits that based on the Cauchy …-Schwarz inequality it is possible to show that sigma-convergence implies necessarily beta-convergence but that beta-convergence is …

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Can oil-led growth and structural change go hand in hand in Ghana? A multi-sector intertemporal general equilibrium assessment

Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2012

Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...

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Localized knowledge spillovers and regional employment growth: evidence from Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - 1999

The present paper aims at explaining the regional deconcentration of economic activities in (West) Germany during the past two decades. Using an idea-based endogenous growth model that encloses several innovative sectors, that subjects economic activity to externalities of agglomeration, and...

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