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Sugar Cane Burning and Human Health: An Analysis Using Spatial Propensity Score Matching

Chagas, Andre; Almeida, Alex; Azzoni, Carlos - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The production of ethanol and sugar from sugar cane has sharply increased for the last 20 years. If there are overall incentives to substitute the consumption of fossil fuels by biofuels, the increase of production and the expansion of new cultivated areas of sugar cane have eventually an impact...

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Technology, Learning, and Long Run Economic Growth in Leading and Lagging Regions

Batabyal, Amit; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014

We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...

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Innovation, Decentralization, and Planning in a Multi-Region Model of Schumpeterian Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amit; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with N heterogeneous regions. For each region i where i=1,...,N, our analysis leads to five findings. First, we define the balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium...

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MEGACITIES AND COUNTRIES: URBANIZATION AND REAL CONVERGENCE

Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - European Regional Science Association - 2014

, attracting immigration and amenities. Nevertheless, although it seems to have convergence among the big cities considered in this … convergence-divergence among 50 Mega-cities of the World, and the convergence-divergence among its corresponding countries, using … several growth models, studying the possible existence of Clubs convergence among these cities and countries. …

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