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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth : Evidence from U.S. Counties
Hammond, George W. - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2015
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029621
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Regional economic convergence in Turkey : does the government really matter for?
Gömleksiz, Mustafa; Şahbaz, Ahmet; Mercan, Birol - In: Economies : open access journal 5 (2017) 3, pp. 1-16
Solow (1956) has made an essential contribution to the Neo-classical growth approach through the economic convergence …. Convergence could occur either among a group of economies with the same steady states or within regions in which their fundamental … dynamics differ, and thus they exhibit multiple steady states. This study aims to investigate convergence with respect to GDP …
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Human capital effects on labour productivity in EU regions
Buendía Azorín, José Daniel; Sánchez de la Vega, … - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 43/45, pp. 4814-4828
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Which economic sectors influence average household income? : a spatial econometric study of Thailand’s 76 provinces
Viriya Taecharungroj - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 2, pp. 1-25
This study investigates the impact of various economic sectors on household income in Thailand. It is conducted in light of the substantial "digital wallet" scheme initiated by the Thai government, with the goal of providing empirical evidence and suggesting alternative policies for regional...
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Misperceiving Inequality
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015
Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
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Convergence of greenhouse gas emissions among G7 countries
El Montasser, Ghassen; Inglesi-Lotz, Roula; Gupta, Rangan - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 58/60, pp. 6543-6552
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Lack of global convergence and the formation of multiple welfare clubs across countries : an unsupervised machine learning approach
Mendez, Carlos - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/74, pp. 1-17
The cross-country convergence hypothesis is one of the central topics of long-run macroeconomics. This paper revisits … beta convergence is first documented. Next, the paper incorporates some recent developments from the unsupervised machine … learning literature to evaluate the existence of local convergence. In particular, the application of a distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029342
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China's catch-up to the US economy : decomposing TFP though investment-specific technology and human capital
Luckstead, Jeff; Seung Mo Choi; Devadoss, Stephen; … - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 31/33, pp. 3995-4007
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Global energy intensity convergence using a spatial panel growth model
Lee, Do Yeong; Park, Sung Y. - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 41, pp. 4745-4764
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