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Logistics and Exports
Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Drawing on a new and comprehensive measure of logistics quality, our gravity model suggests logistics in the exporting and partner-country can have an important impact on bilateral exports.  A one standard deviation improvement in the exporter's logistics quality, which for example would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004383
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Regional Convergence and Catch-up in India between 1960 and 1992
Trivedi, Kamakshya - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
This paper examines the evidence for regional convergence or catch-up in levels and growth rates of per capita income …, Re-Weighted Least Squares, and Least Trimmed Squares - establish that unconditional convergence in growth rates does not … obtain, but that there is clear and robust evidence of conditional convergence. This suggests that important differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605213
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The determinants of Italy's regional imbalances over the long run: exploring the contributions of human and social capital
Felice, Emanuele - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
inequality in Italy.  More particularly, convergence in value added per capita across Italy's regions is tested (through both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004271
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Employment Concentration across US Counties
Fafchamps, Marcel; Desmet, Klaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003
becoming more or less concentrated. The existing literature has found deconcentration (convergence) of employment across urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090665
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Spatial econometric interaction modelling
Patuelli, Roberto (ed.); Arbia, Giuseppe (ed.) - International Exploratory Workshop on Advances in the … - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483879
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Highway to Hitler
Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship – the building of the motorway network in Nazi Germany. The Autobahn was one of the most important projects of the Hitler government. It was intended to reduce unemployment, and...
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Infrastructures and Productivity: an Updated Survey
Fuente, Angel de la - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
The relationship between infrastructures and productivity has been the subject of an ongoing debate during the last two decades. The available empirical evidence is inconclusive and its interpretation is complicated by econometric problems that have not been fully solved. This paper surveys the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547120
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Testing, not modelling, the impact of Cohesion support: a theoretical framework and some preliminary results for the Spanish regions
Fuente, Angel de la - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
This paper develops a simple model that can be used to estimate the effectiveness of Cohesion expenditure relative to similar but unsubsidized projects, thereby making it possible to explicitly test an important assumption that is often implicit in estimates of the impact of Cohesion policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547481
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The Two Faces of R&D and Human Capital: Evidence from Western European Regions
Vogel, Johanna - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
, the model allows for conditional convergence to a long-run level of TFP relative to the frontier.  We also develop an … convergence has taken place over our sample period and that geographic distance to the technology frontier matters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004195
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium: A level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions.  We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004460