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Evidence-based policy or beauty contest? : an LLM-based meta-analysis of EU cohesion policy evaluations

Asatryan, Zareh; Birkholz, Carlo; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2024

Independent and high-quality evaluations of government policies are an important input for designing evidence-based policy. Lack of incentives and institutions to write such evaluations, on the other hand, carry the risk of turning the system into a costly beauty contest. We study one of the...

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Spatial dynamics of labor markets in Brazil

Chomitz, Kenneth M.; Mata, Daniel da; Carvalho, … - 2015

There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990's. In 2000, about one fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than one...

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Estimation of multiequation cross-section models in the presence of spatial autocorrelation

Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; Mata, Daniel da; Chomitz, … - 2015

We describe econometric techniques to treat spatial autocorrelation in multiequation cross-section models. The cross-section approaches discussed here are heavily based on the spatial GMM procedure, proposed by Conley (1999). An extension for fullinformation instrumental variable models is...

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Determinants of city growth in Brazil

Mata, Daniel da; Deichmann, Uwe; Henderson, J. Vernon; … - 2015

In this paper, we examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. We consider a model of a city, which combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, we constructed a dataset of 123 Brazilian...

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Examining the growth patterns of Brazilian cities

Mata, Daniel da; Deichmann, Uwe; Henderson, J. Vernon; … - 2015

agglomerations and in the South, but there is some indication of regional convergence with higher rates of income growth in poorer …

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Favoritism and firms : micro evidence and macro implications

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2021

We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources spatially within countries. We use a large sample of enterprise surveys spanning across many low and middle income countries, and utilize transitions of national political...

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Favoritism by the governing elite

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...

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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration

Schmidt, Peter - 2012

convergence or economic cohesion, respectively. Following this strand of theory no regional policy is needed to achieve … convergence among the regions or nations of a common market. Thus, comparing the two internal markets, the question comes up if … inhibiting internal migration, which is one of the key measures in achieving convergence among the nations in the Single European …

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EU regional policy and its theoretical foundations revisited

Schmidt, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014

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