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Regional growth and national development: transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the regional Kuznets curve in the East and the West
Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126360
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Environmental policy and the economic downturn
Bowen, Alex; Stern, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper considers how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. It first explores the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008-09 for environmental policies, focusing in particular on the example of action against climate change. The arguments for and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744909
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Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration
Geppert, Kurt; Happich, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
research. In this paper we examine whether there are overlapping trends of regional development in the EU: overall convergence … estimation, Markov chain analysis and cross-sectional regressions provide evidence that convergence of regional per-capita income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068841
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Why do regions develop and change?: the challenge for geography and economics
Storper, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for social science. The field of economic geography and associated economics has developed frameworks in recent years that, while tackling major questions in spatial economic development, are deficient in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126237
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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
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Land reform, poverty reduction and growth : evidence from India
Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746031
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Business fluctuations in Imperial Austria's regions, 1867-1913: new evidence
Ciccarelli, Carlo; Missiaia, Anna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper presents annual estimates of total and per-capita GDP at 1910 prices for the regions of Imperial Austria from the origin of the Dual Monarchy (1867) to the eve of WWI (1913). The time paths of regional GDP are estimated from the yield of the tax on the transfer of real and financial...
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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
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Incentive Effects of Fiscal Equalization: Has Russian Style Improved?
Freinkman, Lev; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The effects of inter-government fiscal arrangements on variation in regional economic growth are analyzed for Russia, a country with large cross-regional differences and considerable fiscal redistribution. Moreover, fiscal reforms implemented in the first half of 2000s, which followed to some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068649
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Banks in Space: Does Distance Really Affect Cross-Border Banking?
Neugebauer, Katja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
During the last years, gravity equations have leapt from the trade literature over into the literature on financial markets. Martin and Rey (2004) were the first to provide a theoretical model for cross-border asset trade, yielding a structural gravity equation that could be tested empirically....
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