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provided by the recent advances made in economic growth empirics. Although convergence is usually established in terms of Gross … periods of time, are identified as a force against convergence. After describing the distinction between conditional and non … conditional convergence, the paper considers the role played by the productive structure in establishing regional differences …
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This paper focuses on three (marginal?) questions surrounding the analysis of economic convergence and uses Spanish … analysis are usually quite different in economic size, is the weighting of economic units relevant in convergence analysis? (ii …
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Kaldor’s stylized facts, as well as the process of Spain’s convergence towards the most developed countries. We analyze …
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The paper presents a quantification of Spanish productivity performance over the last two decades –with a special mention to the role played by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It makes use of the capital service data -recently released by the BBVA Foundation- exploiting its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020490
Interprovincial trade barriers are a drag on Canadian productivity and send an embarrassing message to international investors.Despite some past progress in reducing them, they remain an irritant to our economic union. Trade liberalization as pursued by Alberta and British Columbia in the TILMA...
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. Secondly, it questions the aim of per capita income convergence when this takes place as a result of the loss of local … income convergence. …
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ICT business location and, finally, assessing the contribution of ICT investment to regional growth and convergence. The … study also shows that ICT capital investment tends to promote regional economic convergence. Regional policies aiming to … convergence throughout the EU. Importantly, ICT diffusion should also be accompanied by other policies and, in particular …
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This paper provides an interpretive synopsis of the results of a conference on inflation-induced distortions in financial reporting and taxation held in October 1981 at the height of the post-war inflation. It provides analysis of the magnitudes of the likely distortions in reporting and...
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This paper reviews the issues that would arise if Quebec were to separate from Canada. It also presents quantitative estimates of the likely orders of magnitude of their economic impact both on Quebec and the Rest of Canada. Its overall conclusion is that Quebec would be much harder hit than the...
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This paper argues that the two-percentage point cut in the GST to 5 per cent proposed by the Conservatives in the January 2006 Canadian federal election and implemented in the 2007 budget was not “stupid” as suggested by many economists. To the contrary, it fortuitously turned out to provide...
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