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inequality. Our results show significantly higher levels of income inequality in regions with a higher presence of oligarchs …
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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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This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional …
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capital in order to foster economic development, albeit FDI might increase regional inequality since the many different … increase regional inequality in low and middle income countries, while there are no negative redistributional consequences in … inequality. Insofar, the cross-country data supports the lessons from the Chinese case with respect to the reducing effect …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of inequalities and economic convergence on the efficient discount rate, in the absence of any risk-sharing scheme. We consider an economy in which the initial consumption level and the distribution of consumption growth are heterogeneous. The...
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We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends … IV and dynamic panel regressions provide evidence that trade increases interregional inequality, but that the coefficient …
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To control for product quality and exchange rate effects, we use the Japanese regional data to study the Penn effect – the positive relationship between price and income levels. Comparable with the evidence from international data, the Penn effect is significant in the Japanese prefectural...
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geographic concentration and regional income inequality, similar to the finding of a U-shaped pattern of personal income … inequality …
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This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland. Switzerland is a particularly interesting setting in this context because it features both a high level of fiscal autonomy for Swiss cantons and explicit fiscal transfers between...
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We design a spatial model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills. In equilibrium, locations with improved market access become relatively more attractive to the high-skilled, high-income earners. We then empirically analyze the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway...
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