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On the relevance of exports for regional output growth in China

Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2013

Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...

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Spatial Econometric Interaction Modelling

Patuelli, Roberto (ed.); Arbia, Giuseppe (ed.) - 2016

This contributed volume applies spatial and space-time econometric methods to spatial interaction modeling. The first part of the book addresses general cutting-edge methodological questions in spatial econometric interaction modeling, which concern aspects such as coefficient interpretation,...

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Does accounting for spatial effects help forecasting the growth of Chinese provinces?

Girardin, Eric; Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2009

In this paper, we make multi-step forecasts of the annual growth rates of the real GRP for each of the 31 Chinese provinces simultaneously. Beside the usual panel data models, we use panel models that explicitly account for spatial dependence between the GRP growth rates. In addition, the...

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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented solow model

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …

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Local banking and local economic growth in Italy : some panel evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Di Colli, Stefano; Di Salvo, … - 2014

This paper provides new evidence on the contribution of local banking to local economic growth (i.e. at county level - the Italian "province") in Italy. A comprehensive dataset is used, which includes control variables for social capital and human capital as well as indicators of the quality of...

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Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? : The two faces of infrastructure investment

Cadot, Olivier (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so, we eliminate a potential source of bias in...

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Regional Inequality in Spain : 1860-2015

Diez-Minguela, Alfonso; Martinez-Galarraga, Julio; … - 2018

This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern economy, using the Spanish case to shed further light on the challenges that emerging economies are facing today. Regional inequality is currently one of the most pressing...

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Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. (ed.); Nijkamp, Peter (ed.) - 2017

1. Introduction -- 2. Spatial Disparities and Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines -- 3. Decomposing Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-05 and 2009-10 -- 4.Pathways Out of Rural Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four...

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Tourism, Territory and Sustainable Development : Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications in Japan and Europe

Romão, João - 2018

Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information and communication channels (in particular, social media) have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world, namely tourism. The tourist sector (including recreation and leisure...

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Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration : Empirical Studies of China's Urban-Rural and Interregional Development

Chen, Zhao - 2016

This book explains the relationships between equality and efficiency, as well as between government and market, in urban-rural and regional development by providing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Urban-rural development in China is understood from a regional perspective, while...

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