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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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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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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." …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271973
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Can government policies increase national long-run growth rates?
Landon-Lane, John S.; Robertson, Peter E. - 2001
We obtain time series estimates of the long run growth rates of 17 OECD countries, and test the hypothesis that these are the same across countries. We find that we cannot reject this hypothesis for the first and last three decades of the 20th century. We conclude that: (i) there are few, if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318375
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Why was the participation of Indian states in the growth turnaround so patchy? Some evidence based on robustness analysis
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - 2012
In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58-67, we noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian states participated in the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. In this paper we investigate whether there was any systematic...
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Remoteness and unbalanced growth: Understanding divergence across Indian districts
Das, Samarjit; Ghate, Chetan; Robertson, Peter E. - 2013
The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given … income and socio-economic data to explore the hypotheses of conditional convergence, using distance as an indicator of … internal geographical trade and migration costs. We find evidence of conditional convergence for Indian districts but at a rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807674
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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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