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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258663
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What said the neoclassical and endogenous growth theories about Portugal?
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence … productivity at regional level. Presenting some empirical evidence of absolute convergence of productivity for each of the economic … empirical evidence of conditional convergence of productivity, for each of the economic sectors of the NUTS II of Portugal, from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203640
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Services growth and convergence: Getting India’s states together
Shingal, ANIRUDH - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246879
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Convergence and Regional Productivity Divide in Italy: Evidence from Panel Data
Aiello, Francesco; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
endogeneity, we find two key results for the growth of Italian regions. Firstly, we show that the rate of conditional convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089337
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Impact of infrastructure investment on tax: Estimating spillover effects of the Kyushu high-speed rail Line in Japan on regional tax revenue
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991, the Kyushu high-speed rail line was constructed and was completed in 2003. In 2004, the rail line started operating from Kagoshima to Kumamoto. The entire line was opened in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653776
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An impact evaluation of investment in infrastructure: The case of the railway connection in Uzbekistan
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2015
The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of our analysis is based on difference-in-difference estimation linking the changes in the growth rate of regional-level economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526670
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Infrastructure and Development Interlinkage in West Bengal: A VAR Analysis
Majumder, Rajarshi; Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Theoretical propositions proclaim that the association between Infrastructure Availability and Development of a region is quite strong and runs from the former to the latter. Empirical studies are however, inconclusive. While few researchers have concluded that the impact of infrastructure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617098
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The role of fiscal transfers for regional economic convergence in Europe
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Nickel, Christiane; … - 2009
-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005. We find that net fiscal transfers …. -- Fiscal policy, convergence ; regional economic growth ; regional migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832335
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Effects of Investment on Macroeconomic Variables in the Sudanese Economy
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Most developing and underdeveloped countries beside Sudan suffer from the low levels of income in addition to the low savings that are result from the lack of sophisticated savings channels. Hence, the investment depends on the individual's abilities on self savings, where the investment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223348
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616935