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Análisis de las disparidades regionales en Colombia: una aproximación desde la estadística espacial, 1985 – 2010
Moncada Mesa, Jhonny; Quintero, Loaiza; Leandro, Osmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper aims to determine whether there is any convergence at all between the economic activities of the Colombian … Cundinamarca and Antioquia examples of outstanding performance. This way, it is concluded that there is convergence between the … Colombian municipalities for the period analyzed, reaching an approximate convergence speed of 3.34% per annum. …
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Infrastructure and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment A Regional Analysis
Castro, Lucio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In the 1990’s, Argentina became a top destination for FDI to developing countries. The geographical distribution of FDI inflows was, however, highly uneven. In parallel, the spatial allocation of public infrastructure greatly mirrored these regional disparities. What were the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621706
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Whither the Indian Federation? Regional Disparities and Economic Reforms
Alessandrini, Michele; Buccellato, Tullio; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The last two decades have seen increased divergence among the states of the Indian Federation in terms of their economic performance. This paper uses spatial econometric methods to examine how the regional pattern of growth has been influenced by the economic reforms implemented since the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564520
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Spatial Dynamic Panel Model and System GMM: A Monte Carlo Investigation
Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, Jose-Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper investigates the �finite sample properties of estimators for spatial dynamic panel models in the presence of several endogenous variables. So far, none of the available estimators in spatial econometrics allows considering spatial dynamic models with one or more endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267894
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الآثار الإقتصادية للتجارة الخارجية بين مصر والكوميسا بإستخدام نموذج الجاذبية للتحليل المكانى
Shehata, Emad Abd Elmessih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is considered one of the most economic blocks in Africa, where membership includes nineteen countries, including Egypt since the mid-1998, and aims to increase the prospects for cooperation and increase trade between COMESA countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260397
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Spatial autocorrelation and Verdoorn law in the Portuguese nuts III
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker), at economic sectors level of the NUTs III of mainland Portugal, from 1995 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2005 (taking in count the data availability and the Portuguese...
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Quality of Life in the Regions: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for West German Labor Markets
Rusche, Karsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Which of Germanys regions is the most attractive? Where is it best to live and work - on objective grounds? These questions are summed up in the concept “quality of life”. This paper uses recent research projects that determine this parameter to examine the spatial distribution of quality of...
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Does Lax Environmental Regulation Attract FDI when accounting for "third-country" effects?
Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, Jose-Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper investigates if differences in environmental regulations can influence FDI flows in a multi-country setting taking into account the so-called "third-country" effects. We examine bilateral FDI flows using a new extended OECD investment database which covers great number of host...
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Assessing Global Change from a Regional Perspective
Zimmer, Markus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Global change has become eminent in our everyday lives. Slowly, but noticeably, the faces surrounding us represent the international global community. Climate doomsday is as present as ethnical and religious controversy. The press reports how eastern German women to flee the catastrophic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520716
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Spatial Dynamic Panel Model and System GMM: A Monte Carlo Investigation
Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, Jose-Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Since there is so far no estimator that allows to estimate a dynamic panel model that includes a spatial lag as well as other potential endogenous variables. This paper wants to determine if it is suitable to instrument the spatial lag variable (which is by de�finition endogenous/simultaneous)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619661