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China’s local government debt (LGD) has recently become the focus of economic policy debates. However, information about LGD and its impact on economic growth in the Chinese economy is scarce. This paper attempts to present an empirical investigation of the impact of China’s LGD on economic...
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ƒÒ-convergence and to pinpoint influential factors for economic growth across counties and cities. …
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(the agricultural club) show no evidence of convergence and appear to have been left behind in terms of economic …
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This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate …
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This paper analyzes the spatial structure of goods market integration in Russia, characterizing regions into three states: (a) integrated, (b) not integrated but trending toward integration, and (c) not integrated and not trending toward integration. Using time series of the cost of a staples...
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This is an empirical study of the real income convergence among the fifteen European Union members and the eleven …-section regression and dynamic panel data estimations. Most estimation methods find positive convergence, but estimated rates of … convergence vary considerably. …
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other studies on the same topic. The models tested are grounded in the law of one price. Price convergence is analysed with … univariate time series methods, where linear and non-linear cointegration models refer to convergence in the short run and in the …-linear trend variable in the model indicates whether there is movement towards integration in the long run. Convergence of prices …
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Our study examines home drivers of China’s regional outward FDI. We propose a theoretical framework that incorporates an extended Investment Development Path (IDP) theory, home locational constraints, policy incentives and geographic factors. Empirically, we employ the Bayesian Averaging...
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In this paper we analyse the impact of R&D on total factor productivity across Chinese provinces. We introduce innovations explicitly into a production function and evaluate their contribution to economic growth in 1993 - 2006. The empirical results highlight the importance and the interaction...
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Seaports have historically played a key role in facilitating trade and growth. This paper is the first attempt in the literature to analyse the formation of Chinese seaport cities and the dynamics that drives it. First, we aim to identify theoretically the emergence of urbanized seaports with...
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