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Internet infrastructure and regional convergence : evidence from Turkey
Celbis, Mehmet Guney; Crombrugghe, Denis de - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 97 (2018) 2, pp. 387-409
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969721
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801809
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Improving the fiscal framework to enhance growth in an era of fiscal consolidation in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert W.; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2013
The challenge for fiscal policy in Slovakia is to achieve fiscal consolidation in a way which supports the fragile recovery and protects spending on areas which are important for re-embarking on a trajectory of high trend growth and underpinning a catch-up in living standards. While the recently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711240
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430076
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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2007
This paper studies the joint effect of economic and political inequalities on redistributive taxation and institutional quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278272
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732552
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Luxembourg : diversifying a small open economy
Strasky, Jan; Wurzel, Eckhard - 2015
Developing activities in areas other than finance would help to sustain growth and deal with the declining potential output and trend productivity growth that Luxembourg’s economy is facing. Given the relatively high labour costs, Luxembourg’s future comparative advantages are likely to lie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399553
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Sustaining the economic expansion in New Zealand
Luu, Corinne - 2015
The NZ economy has performed well over the past few years, having achieved relatively strong GDP and employment growth. However, some constraints to sustaining this momentum beyond the short term are emerging in the fields of skills, housing and urban infrastructure. Skills shortages have risen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399572
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Inter-state dynamics of invention activities, 1930 - 2000
Co, Catherine Y.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005
1930 to 2000 using a discrete-state Markov chain. We test for and find evidence in favor of the (knowledge) convergence … states in the middle of the cross-sectional distribution and the rate of convergence to the limiting distribution is "slow." …
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Price Level Convergence Among United States Cities: Lessons for the European Central Bank
Cecchetti, Stephen; Mark, Nelson C.; Sonora, Robert - 1998
estimate the half life of convergence to be approximately 9 years. The following hypotheses are investigated as explanations … for the slow convergence: (i) Arbitrage impediments induced by transportation costs, and (ii) and the inclusion of … upper bound on convergence rates that participants in European Monetary Union may experience. …
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