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. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of … the various European regions. Investigating the impact of European Cohesion Policy on economic growth and convergence is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299177
. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of … the various European regions. Investigating the impact of European Cohesion Policy on economic growth and convergence is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533553
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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We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle the potential problem of endogeneity, and estimating a spatial model to account for inter-regional spillovers. We use the presence of environmentally protected areas (under the...
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This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...
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This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in … with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial error convergence model with groupwise heteroskedasticity is found … data provide much support for unconditional ß-convergence in Europe. The second is that the usual convergence conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297367
This paper analyses the growth e®ects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298662
This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in … with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial error convergence model with groupwise heteroskedasticity is found … data provide much support for unconditional ß-convergence in Europe. The second is that the usual convergence conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097596
This paper analyses the growth e®ects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097715