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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029109
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A century of regional inequalities in Brazil
Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos; Alves, Pedro Jorge Holanda - 2022
leapfrogging over richer municipalities, from 1920 to 1970. Although the coefficients confirmed a long-term convergence trend in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428797
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Regional convergence and economic performance : a case study of the West German Laender
Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999
In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as … convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have been achieved with respect to a stronger harmonization of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428207
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Regional stabilization by fiscal equalization? : Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from Germany
Büttner, Thiess - 1999
In the context of EMU fiscal equalization schemes have been proposed as a means to stabilize regions against asymmetric shocks. A theoretical analysis shows that besides reducing the cross-sectional income variance the redistributive element of fiscal equalization causes incentive effects for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428245
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Review of literature on the productivity of public capital
Hamalainen, Pellervo - 2009
This paper summarizes previous results on the productivity of public capital. In recent literature, Aschauer's (1989) estimate for the productivity of public capital is often considered too high and the size of the effect is still open to debate. However, the positive effect of public capital on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503009
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Evidence-based policy or beauty contest? : an LLM-based meta-analysis of EU cohesion policy evaluations
Asatryan, Zareh; Birkholz, Carlo; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2024
Independent and high-quality evaluations of government policies are an important input for designing evidence-based policy. Lack of incentives and institutions to write such evaluations, on the other hand, carry the risk of turning the system into a costly beauty contest. We study one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574916
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Offshoring, Relocation and the Speed of Convergence: Convergence in the Enlarged European Union
Alho, Kari E. O.; Kaitila, Ville; Widgrén, Mika - 2008
Economic convergence of the new member states (NMS) of the EU towards the old EU countries (EU-15), not only in terms … indebtedness. At the same time we evaluate the impact of convergence on the EU-15 countries also, by endogenising offshoring and … process of convergence. We find that in a general equilibrium setting fears of large adverse effects of a relocation of EU-15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502995
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Malthus was right : explaining a millennium of stagnation
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Robertson, Peter E.; Ye, Longfeng - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208673
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Regional growth and regional decline
Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777644
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Regional resilience in China : the response of the provinces to the growth slowdown
Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207547