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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962120
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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups : Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict
Jetter, Michael - 2018
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,...
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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Irmen, Andreas - 2012
. Club convergence in growth rates can be traced back to a country's openness and to a minimum required level of human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754962
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Trade diversity and stages of development : evidence on EU countries
Parteka, Aleksandra - 2013
The paper presents the dynamics of trade diversity with respect to stages of development in the European context. The analysis focuses on EU27 countries observed across the years 1988-2010 and compared to a sample of 136 international economies at all levels of income per capita. We use product...
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