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Labor migration in the European Union : the case of Central and Eastern Europe

Schneider, Ondřej - 2021

regional convergence, as every percentage point of net migration increased GDP per capita by roughly 0.01% and reduced …

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Regional convergence in the European union : what are the factors of growth?

Pintera, Jan - 2021

remains inconclusive about speed of convergence across regions, if not its existence. This paper provides a new look on … convergence in the EU while focusing on development at regional level after the Great Recession. It uses the log t convergence … test by Phillips and Sul (2007) to analyze the convergence in level of income among the European regions. Rather than …

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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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Regional growth and regional decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - 2013

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The importance of EU cohesion policy for economic growth and convergence

Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2024

This chapter discusses factors that contributed to different economic dynamics across European regions and the prevailing disparities. The impact of EU Cohesion Policy in reducing disparities is studied based on the empirical evidence on the effects of EU regional policy. With more than thirty...

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Growth miracles and failures in a Markov switching classification model of growth

Kerekes, Monika - 2009

Acknowledging the fact that the growth experience of countries is seldom well described by the average growth rate, this paper aims at identifying countries that are similar in terms of their growth process, thus emphasizing the dynamics of growth rates. To that end, the growth experience of...

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The natural resource curse and institutions in post-Soviet countries

Horváth, Roman; Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014

We examine the effect of natural resource exports on economic performance during the 1996-2011 period in the 15 independent countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union. These countries were a largely homogeneous group with respect to social and institutional context; however, these...

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Natural catastrophes and financial development : an empirical analysis

Horváth, Roman - 2020

We estimate the causal effect of natural catastrophes on financial development. We focus on largest catastrophes in developing economies in 1960-2016, employ synthetic control method to compute the counterfactual and use the credit to GDP ratio as the measure of financial development. Our...

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The empirics of economic growth over time and across nations : a unified growth perspective

Cervellati, Matteo; Meyerheim, Gerrit; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

studied in isolation. The findings also shed new light on the role of the demographic transition for convergence patterns, the …

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How do regional price levels affect income inequality? : household-level evidence from 21 countries

Jansky, Petr; Sedivy, Marek - 2018

Regional differences in prices levels are substantial in many countries, but little is known about how important they are for income inequality and relative poverty. To bridge this gap, we provide new evidence on the basis of the best available data and a novel two-step approach. First, we...

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