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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120656
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157845
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766971
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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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Measurement of Economic Welfare Risk and Resilience of the Philippine Regions
Yonson, Rio - 2018
Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How resilient is each region to riverine flood disasters?...
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Regional Economic Development in Europe, 1900-2010 : A Description of the Patterns
Rosés, Joan Ramón - 2018
We provide the first long-run dataset of regional employment structures and regional GDP and GDP per capita in 1990 international dollars, stretching over more than 100 years. These data allow us to compare regions over time, among each other, and to other parts of the world. After some brief...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919005
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Application of Regionally Varying Additionality Degrees in the Practice of EU Cohesion Policy
Nam, Chang Woon - 2010
The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions,...
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