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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029109
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Political electoral cycles and public investments in Brazil
Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2015
This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057055
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428797
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Review of literature on the productivity of public capital
Hamalainen, Pellervo - 2009
This paper summarizes previous results on the productivity of public capital. In recent literature, Aschauer's (1989) estimate for the productivity of public capital is often considered too high and the size of the effect is still open to debate. However, the positive effect of public capital on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503009
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Impacts of subsidized credit on the optimum level of post-crisis investment of Brazilian firms
Alves, Patrick Franco; Silva, Ludmilla Lorrany Mattos; … - 2018
Firms' investment decisions involve analyzing prices, products, technologies, productive capacity and the availability of credit. These and other factors were greatly impacted by the 2009 post-crisis economic environment in Brazil. We measure the after crisis impacts of subsidized credit on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061259
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574916
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502995
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194639
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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