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The effects of the EU Cohesion Policy on regional economic growth : using structural equation modelling for impact assessment

Maucorps, Ambre; Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2020

This paper analyses the effects of the EU Cohesion Policy (CP) on the economic growth of 276 European NUTS-2 regions between 2008 and 2016. Using a structural equation model (SEM) consisting of both a measurement component (with two latent variables) and a structural component, we estimate the...

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On the economic effects of a reallocation of EU cohesion policy expenditures

Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2020

-run convergence and short-run economic performance. …

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Landlockedness and economic development : analyzing subnational panel data and exploring mechanisms

Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; Stadelmann, David - 2017

This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within-country-time variation only (e.g., regional variation...

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Convergence of European natural gas prices

Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Polo, Michele - 2018

, their wholesale national gas markets are highly heterogeneous. We study the determinants of cross-country convergence of … pairwise, relative and σ-convergence. We show that there is evidence of pairwise price convergence and that some key … the existence of a convergence process. This result carries over to the notion of σ-convergence and is robust to a number …

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Automation, economic growth, and the labor share - a comment on Prettner (2019)

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2019 - This Version: June 24, 2019

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes...

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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?

Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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Steady-state growth and the elasticity of substitution

Irmen, Andreas - 2010

In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmenting technical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This confirms the assessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...

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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Explaining inequality between countries : the declining role of political institutions

Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael; McWilliam, Dianne - 2017

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, "humanly devised" political institutions represent a hallmark factor that societies can influence, as opposed to, for example, geography. Focusing on the portion of inequality explainable by differences in political...

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