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A retrospective study on the regional benefits and spillover effects of high-speed broadband networks : evidence from German counties
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Gugler, Klaus - 2019 - This version: May 2019
There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth levels, influence GDP growth, or on the extent of spatial externalities at a regional level. Our study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within...
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Evaluating multiple spatial dimensionsof economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data models (1970-2000)
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; … - 2015
convergence hypothesis cannot be rejected suggesting there are differences in the convergence processes between the north and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056555
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A century of regional inequalities in Brazil
Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos; Alves, Pedro Jorge Holanda - 2022
leapfrogging over richer municipalities, from 1920 to 1970. Although the coefficients confirmed a long-term convergence trend in …
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Misperceiving Inequality
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015
Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016396
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Offshoring, Relocation and the Speed of Convergence: Convergence in the Enlarged European Union
Alho, Kari E. O.; Kaitila, Ville; Widgrén, Mika - 2008
Economic convergence of the new member states (NMS) of the EU towards the old EU countries (EU-15), not only in terms … indebtedness. At the same time we evaluate the impact of convergence on the EU-15 countries also, by endogenising offshoring and … process of convergence. We find that in a general equilibrium setting fears of large adverse effects of a relocation of EU-15 …
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Markets wanted : expectation overshooting in transition
Neher, Frank - 2011
positive than in market economies. Over time, this difference has vanishes. Convergence can be attributed to changing believes …
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Malthus was right : explaining a millennium of stagnation
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Robertson, Peter E.; Ye, Longfeng - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208673
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
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Regional resilience in China : the response of the provinces to the growth slowdown
Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2019
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The effects of China’s growth slowdown on its provinces : disentangling the sources
Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2019
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