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Testing, not Modelling, the Impact of Cohesion Support : A Theoretical Framework and some Preliminary Results for the Spanish Regions
de la Fuente, Angel - 2010
This paper develops a simple model that can be used to estimate the effectiveness of Cohesion expenditure relative to similar but unsubsidized projects, thereby making it possible to explicitly test an important assumption that is often implicit in estimates of the impact of Cohesion policies....
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Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment : The Italian Case
Daniele, Vittorio - 2011
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using different estimation methods for panel data. The...
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Gender Culture and Gender Gap in Employment
Campa, Pamela; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - 2021
This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure culture by building two indices: one based on individual attitudes, as done in the existing literature; one based on firms’ attitudes. Firms’ beliefs, which express their...
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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration
Brakman, Steven - 2011
Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...
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Regional Inequality and Decentralization - An Empirical Analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data set which covers 56 countries at different stages of economic development. Cross-section and panel data estimations show that decentralization decreases regional inequalities in...
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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2009
the result of competition for prestige between courts and not of economic prosperity. Accordingly, the instrument is …
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Fiscal Competition, Convergence and Agglomeration
Fenge, Robert - 2007
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal competition through infrastructure in a New Economic Geography framework. It … is shown that regional competition leads to convergence if the trade costs are high but induces divergence if trade cost … have fallen below a certain value. Moreover, fiscal competition yields an overprovision if the trade costs are sizable …
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Going NUTS : The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
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....
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Real Wage Chronologies
Christofides, Louis N. - 2009
We process information in a large number of wage contracts, signed over a period of several decades, to generate the long-run history of the real wage for each bargaining pair. We term these hitherto unexamined histories 'chronologies'. We are able to generate 1574 continuous real wage...
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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
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