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Análisis de las disparidades regionales en Colombia: una aproximación desde la estadística espacial, 1985 – 2010

Moncada Mesa, Jhonny; Quintero, Loaiza; Leandro, Osmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper aims to determine whether there is any convergence at all between the economic activities of the Colombian … Cundinamarca and Antioquia examples of outstanding performance. This way, it is concluded that there is convergence between the … Colombian municipalities for the period analyzed, reaching an approximate convergence speed of 3.34% per annum. …

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Infrastructure and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment A Regional Analysis

Castro, Lucio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In the 1990’s, Argentina became a top destination for FDI to developing countries. The geographical distribution of FDI inflows was, however, highly uneven. In parallel, the spatial allocation of public infrastructure greatly mirrored these regional disparities. What were the determinants of...

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Whither the Indian Federation? Regional Disparities and Economic Reforms

Alessandrini, Michele; Buccellato, Tullio; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The last two decades have seen increased divergence among the states of the Indian Federation in terms of their economic performance. This paper uses spatial econometric methods to examine how the regional pattern of growth has been influenced by the economic reforms implemented since the early...

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Transformación económica desde la óptica fiscal. ¿Puede existir un equilibrio entre el corto, mediano y largo plazo para fomentar el desarrollo?

Valdivia, Daney; Loayza, Lilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper computes the fiscal stance in a small open economy and asses its position to relevant macroeconomic variables in order to protect the macroeconomic stability and promote development. Since 2006 change in income and tax structure shifts the implementation of fiscal policy, increasing...

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Spatial Dynamic Panel Model and System GMM: A Monte Carlo Investigation

Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, Jose-Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper investigates the �finite sample properties of estimators for spatial dynamic panel models in the presence of several endogenous variables. So far, none of the available estimators in spatial econometrics allows considering spatial dynamic models with one or more endogenous...

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الآثار الإقتصادية للتجارة الخارجية بين مصر والكوميسا بإستخدام نموذج الجاذبية للتحليل المكانى

Shehata, Emad Abd Elmessih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is considered one of the most economic blocks in Africa, where membership includes nineteen countries, including Egypt since the mid-1998, and aims to increase the prospects for cooperation and increase trade between COMESA countries....

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Spatial autocorrelation and Verdoorn law in the Portuguese nuts III

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker), at economic sectors level of the NUTs III of mainland Portugal, from 1995 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2005 (taking in count the data availability and the Portuguese...

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Does Lax Environmental Regulation Attract FDI when accounting for "third-country" effects?

Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, Jose-Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper investigates if differences in environmental regulations can influence FDI flows in a multi-country setting taking into account the so-called "third-country" effects. We examine bilateral FDI flows using a new extended OECD investment database which covers great number of host...

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Spatial Dynamic Panel Model and System GMM: A Monte Carlo Investigation

Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, Jose-Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Since there is so far no estimator that allows to estimate a dynamic panel model that includes a spatial lag as well as other potential endogenous variables. This paper wants to determine if it is suitable to instrument the spatial lag variable (which is by de�finition endogenous/simultaneous)...

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Violence and Drug Prohibition in Colombia

Medina, Carlos; Martínez, Hermes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

We assess the role of inequality, poverty and drug prohibition, in explaining homicide rates(HR) in Colombia using panel data at the municipality level between 1990 and 1998. We use maximum likelihood estimation to evaluate several specifications of spatial models. When we pool the data we find...

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