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Growth Effects of Spatial Redistribution Policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - CESifo - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645644
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Growth Effects of Spatial Redistribution Policies
Arcalean, Calin - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110806
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The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - CESifo - 2008
unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196304
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930611
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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386354
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167137
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Economic Challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - CESifo - 2013
The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877706
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Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - CESifo - 2012
research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and religious heritage are important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877834
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Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - CESifo - 2008
The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country’s location however not only determines its absolute geography, it also pins down its relative position on the globe vis-à-vis other countries. This paper assesses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181360
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Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2009
The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's location however not only determines its absolute geography, it also pins down its relative position on the globe vis-a-vis other countries. This paper assesses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765690