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Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …

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The impact of regional absorptive capacity on spatial knowledge spillovers

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008

We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but only part of it is efficiently adopted in the economy; the share of efficiently adopted technology depends on...

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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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Territorial capital and regional growth : increasing returns in cognitive knowledge use

Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...

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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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Misspecification in linear spatial regression models

Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2003

Spatial effects are endemic in models based on spatially referenced data. The increased awareness of the relevance of spatial interactions, spatial externalities and networking effects among actors, evoked the area of spatial econometrics. Spatial econometrics focuses on the specification and...

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Regional population-employment dynamics across different sectors of the economy

Graaff, Thomas de; Oort, Frank van; Florax, Raymond J. G. M. - 2011

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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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A meta-analysis of beta-convergence : the legendary two-percent

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2005

The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …

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