We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20-30% in districts along GQ and are stronger in industries more dependent upon external finance. Loan growth begins with...

The analysis about the growth and the convergence has given rise to a wide and copious literature. The research that have acquired most protagonism are those that evaluate empirically the existence or not of convergence in the levels of income among different regions. In this paper we understand...

A suitable methodological proposal for getting sectorial clusters is determined in this paper. This proposal is based on the Graphs Theory, which as long as it simplifies the relations between the sectors, it lets us to take out the underlying economical structure and, therefore it makes to...

The objective of this study is to examine the potential impacts of different levels of educational attainment and infrastructure investment on income performance within the state of Missouri. Data are collected for all of Missouri’s 114 counties. Endogeneity testing is carried out and both...

We examine the role of social norms and warm-glow in a theoretical framework and establish that improving the quality of recycling facilities, for example through kerbside collection, will elicit more recycling effort if warm-glow is present. Drawing on the literature, we model the role of...

La implementación del nuevo Fondo Europeo Agrícola de Desarrollo Rural (FEADER) refleja la decidida apuesta de la Unión Europea por convertir la Política de Desarrollo Rural en el segundo pilar de la Política Agrícola Común (PAC). La eficacia del FEADER para conseguir los objetivos...