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Sports and Regional Growth in Sweden - Is a successful professional sports team good for regional economic growth?
Värja, Emelie - 2014
This study investigates whether net inbound migration and per capita income growth of a municipality is affected when a local sports team enters or exits the premium national leagues in ice hockey or soccer in Sweden. Local governments frequently support a local professional team through direct...
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Growth spillovers in the MENA region
Baysoy, Merve Aksoylar; Altug, Sumru - 2019
In this paper, we examine the role of spillovers in economic growth for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by accounting for spatial effects. Such spatial effects in growth for the MENA countries may arise on the basis of geography, bilateral trade or institutional similarities. We...
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Commuting in Europe: An Inter-regional Analysis on its Determinants and Spatial Effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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Trade-offs in Achieving Human Development Goals for Bangladesh
Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2014
Even though Bangladesh has made progress towards reaching some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is still a major challenge for the government to further reduce poverty and improve human developments, in particular achieving a 100 percent primary-school completion rate. As foreign...
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Optimal Public Investment in Resource-Rich Low-Income Countries
Algozhina, Aliya - 2020
Recent studies have found that resource-rich low-income countries are better off investing their resource revenues domestically rather than saving them abroad in a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). This paper finds an optimal rule-based policy of accumulating public capital and its associated public...
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2013
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity …. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are …
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Federal, state, and local governments: Evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...
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Growth and Convergence across the US: Evidence from County-Level Data
Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew T. - 2003
income convergence. County-level data are particularly valuable for studying convergence because they allow us to study a … in the conditional convergence rates, we report the estimates for the entire data set as well as for subsets including … metro counties, non-metro counties, and five regional groupings. Our findings include: (i) while OLS yields convergence …
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Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2003
This note outlines (i) why σ-convergence may not accompany β-convergence; (ii) cites evidence of β-convergence in the U ….S.; (iii) demonstrates that σ-convergence does not hold across the U.S., or within most U.S. states; and (iv) demonstrates the …
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