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Financial Integration and European Tourism Stocks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Yfanti, Stavroula; … - 2023
This study examines the macro drivers of the time-varying (dynamic) connectedness between eleven European tourism … estate activity. Further, economic and political uncertainty is found to intensify the macro effects on tourism correlations … crash, also magnify the impact of macro drivers on the evolution of co-movement and integration in the tourism sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261022
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273804
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Tourism Persistence in the Southeastern European Countries : The Impact of COVID-19
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Imeri, Amir; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2022
This paper examines tourism persistence in a group of Southeastern European (SEE) countries (Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243164
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Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273782
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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276225
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A Beam of Light : Media, Tourism & Economic Development
Nocito, Samuel; Sartarelli, Marcello; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2021
Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists … to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism … factor of 2.5. Furthermore, we provide evidence of positive spillovers in nearby municipalities. To estimate the tourism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228867
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The Impact of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster on Local Economic Activity : Evidence from the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347828
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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes
Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2021
What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211730
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The determinants of economic growth in European regions
Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009
is dominated by the catching up process of regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), whereas convergence within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264534
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READ-GER : Introducing German Real-Time Regional Accounts Data for Revision Analysis and Nowcasting
Lehmann, Robert - 2023
Accurate real-time macroeconomic data are essential for policy-making and economic nowcasting. In this paper, I introduce a real-time database for German regional economic accounts (READ-GER). The database contains real-time information for nine macroeconomic aggregates and the 16 German states....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358678