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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 - 2018

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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Public services and liveability in European cities in comparison

Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2021

A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...

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

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

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Productivity effects of trade in natural resources : comparison with mechanisms of technological specialisation

Zarach, Zuzanna; Parteka, Aleksandra - 2022 - This version: April 2022

estimation of a conditional convergence model. In general, reliance on natural resource exports slows growth, but we find that …

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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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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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Investments and financial flows induced by climate mitigation policies

Bastianin, Andrea; Favero, Alice; Massetti, Emanuele - 2010

In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...

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Explaining Inequality between Countries : The Declining Role of Political Institutions

Hussey, Andrew - 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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