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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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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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Technology convergence and digital divides : a country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2013

convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …

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Cognitive capital and islands of innovation : the Lucas growth model from a regional perspective

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011

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Irish regional GDP since independence

De Bromhead, Alan; Kenny, Sean - 2024

convergence over the period 1926-1991 was driven by both within-sector convergence in productivity and structural change. Our …

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A race to the bottom in labour standards? : an empirical investigation

Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011 - This Draft: November 2011

Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...

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Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe : are social capital and geographical proximity the key determinants?

Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2011

Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

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Global aging and economic convergence : a real option or still a case of science fiction?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2007

How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world …

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Defining European wholesale electricity markets : an "and/or" approach

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2009

An important question in the dynamic European wholesale markets for electricity is whether to define the geographical market at the level of an individual member state or more broadly. We show that if we currently take the traditional approach by considering for each member state whether there...

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