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This paper looks at the economic impact of secession through the lens of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. It uses an econometric analysis covering the period between 1956 and 2011 – including a series of factors linked to the independence process, socioeconomic and structural...
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This paper examines whether, given the increasing salience of subnational governments, political decentralisation has an impact on overall economic performance. It uses panel data analyses in order to determine the association between a number of the different indices of political...
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Western Europe has an effect on within regional interpersonal inequality. Second, whether this potential relationship is …
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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …
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This paper delves into the factors which determine the attractiveness of regions in Europe for migrants. Contrary to … the literature on the US which has increasingly focused on the role of amenities, existing research in Europe tends to … Union (EU). Our findings therefore indicate that locational choices in Europe may be much more similar to place …
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In this paper we investigate the impact of local quality of government on the attractiveness of European regions to migrants. The analysis is based on panel data estimations of 254 regions for the period between 1995 and 2009. Different instrumental variable techniques have been employed in...
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This paper looks at the factors driving regional growth in Mexico, paying special attention to the potentially growth-enhancing role of innovation and innovation policy. The analysis combines innovation variables with indicators linked to the formation of adequate social conditions for...
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This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level in Greece. Using a new database of public expenditure per region for the period 1978-2007, it proposes a model which captures not just the impact of public investment in Greek...
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Emerging world countries have experienced over the last two decades a significant change in their trade patterns. Bold trade reforms have been followed by rapid rises in international trade levels. However, despite these radical changes, we know remarkably little about how changes in trade...
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of further infrastructure investments across most of Western Europe. …
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