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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography

Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2003

This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...

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Inequality, politics and economic growth

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2002

The paper studies the relationship between inequality and economic growth. This is done in a two sector model of endogenous growth with agents characterized by heterogeneity of factor endowments. The private sector consists of a large number of competitive ¯rms who produce the only ¯nal good...

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Economic integration in a multicone world?

Volpe Martincus, Christian; Pédussel Wu, Jennifer - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2005

This paper examines whether economic integration favors countries' convergence into a common cone of diversification … integration in Europe is found to have promoted convergence from lower to higher diversification cones. …

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Balkan and Mediterranean candidates for European Union membership: The convergence of their monetary policy with that of the European Central Bank

Brada, Josef C.; Kutan, Ali M. - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2001

We compare the convergence with German monetary policy of the Balkan and Mediterranean country candidates for EU …

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Comovement and catch-up in productivity across sectors: Evidence from the OECD

Cornwell, Christopher Mark; Wächter, Jens-Uwe - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 1999

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined … whether departures from the frontier|country{level ineciencies|exhibit long{run relationships and convergence. The method is … to display convergence, shows signs of catch-up. It is examined whether departures from the frontier …

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Productivity convergence and economic growth: A frontier production function approach

Cornwell, Christopher Mark; Wächter, Jens-Uwe - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 1999

this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …

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Real and monetary convergence within the European Union and between the European Union and candidate countries: A rolling cointegration approach

Brada, Josef C.; Kutan, Ali M.; Zhou, Su - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2002

We use rolling cointegration to measure the convergence of base money, M2, the consumer price index and industrial …

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Liberalization, democracy and economic performance during transition

Fidrmuc, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2000

This paper analyzes the inter-relations between economic and political processes during transition in 25 post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The main findings are the following: First, economic liberalization generally has positive effect on growth...

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Regional specialization and concentration of industrial activity in accession countries

Traistaru, Iulia; Nijkamp, Peter; Longhi, Simonetta - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2002

Since 1990, Central and East European economies have experienced increasing integration with the European Union via trade and direct foreign investments. The spatial implications of this process have not been investigated in-depth so far. Have patterns of regional specialization changed over the...

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Measuring tax burdens in Europe

Wolff, Guntram B. - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2005

, and 5 percentage points lower on capital and consumption. There is no tendency of convergence in effective tax burdens on …

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