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A retrospective study on the regional benefits and spillover effects of high-speed broadband networks : evidence from German counties

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Gugler, Klaus - 2019 - This version: May 2019

There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth levels, influence GDP growth, or on the extent of spatial externalities at a regional level. Our study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within...

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Conceptualising rural-urban dynamics

Thomas, Alex M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper revisits the work of Richard Cantillon and Francois Quesnay in order to conceptualise the dynamics between rural and urban areas in an economy. Concepts of social surplus and economy as a circular flow are presented in order to highlight the interrelationship between the growth...

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Economic growth and the optimum size of government in 15 European countries: A threshold panel approach

Hajamini, Mehdi; Falahi, Mohammad Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In the growth literature, there is a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and government size, which is similar to an inverted U-shaped curve. This curve can be used to determine the optimum share of government expenditures. This paper, using threshold panel approach, attempts to...

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Malthus was right : explaining a millennium of stagnation

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Robertson, Peter E.; Ye, Longfeng - 2019

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Testing for Stochastic and Beta-convergence in Latin American Countries

Escobari, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper uses time-series data from nineteen Latin American countries and the U.S. to test for income convergence … using two existing definitions of convergence and a new testable definition of β-convergence. Only Dominican Republic and … convergence exists when allowing for structural breaks using the two-break minimum LM unit root of Lee and Strazicich (2003). The …

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What about regions in regional science? An exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union

Resende, Guilherme; Cravo, Tulio - European Regional Science Association - 2013

the empirical results caused by the use of different spatial scales in the analysis of convergence process of European … (MAUP). Thus, convergence processes among EU15 are examined across three spatial scales often used in applied work, namely …, NUTS1, NUTS2 and NUTS3, between 2000 and 2008. The paper suggests that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the …

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Regional resilience in China : the response of the provinces to the growth slowdown

Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2019

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The effects of China’s growth slowdown on its provinces : disentangling the sources

Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2019

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Regional resilience in China : the response of the provinces to the growth slowdown

Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2020

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The importance of EU cohesion policy for economic growth and convergence

Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2024

This chapter discusses factors that contributed to different economic dynamics across European regions and the prevailing disparities. The impact of EU Cohesion Policy in reducing disparities is studied based on the empirical evidence on the effects of EU regional policy. With more than thirty...

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