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The Determinants of Economic Growth in European Regions
Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo - 2009
We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...
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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space
Lessmann, Christian - 2015
regional income data are available. We subsequently use our estimation results for an out-of-sample prediction of regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023191
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Compactness vs. Sprawl Revisited : Converging Views
Ewing, Reid - 2014
This paper examines the relative merits of compact cities or urban sprawl (suburban settlement patterns) as a spatial solution to environmental problems (such as climate control), automobile dependence, economic development, infrastructure costs and the quality of urban life
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059513
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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157845
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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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Ethnic Favoritism : An Axiom of Politics?
De Luca, Giacomo - 2015
We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027085
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Does Culture Cause Economic Development? A Reassessment of the Evidence from European Regions
Edwards, Jeremy - 2021
This paper shows that Tabellini’s recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic development is unjustified. Tabellini’s claim is based on an instrumental variables analysis in which two instruments are used to identify the supposed causal effect. One of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315830
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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118683
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Urbanization and Growth : Why Did the Splendor of the Italian Cities in the Sixteenth Century Not Lead to Transition?
Chiarini, Bruno - 2014
explain why urbanization did not drive the economy to sustained growth. Our main contribution, validated by an estimated VAR … productivity. The analysis provides a picture of a trapped economy where urbanization was unable to trigger a persistent process of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044555
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Urbanization and Economic Development : A Tale of Two Barriers
Bond, Eric W. - 2016
barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are …In this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … supplemented with quantitative analysis fitting the data from China, to explore the role that reductions in trade and migration …
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