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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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Does fiscal decentralisation foster regional investment in productive infrastructure?

Kappeler, Andreas; Solé-Ollé, Albert; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2012

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of revenue decentralization on the provision of infrastructure at the sub-national level. We estimate the effects of revenue decentralization and earmarked grant financing on the level of sub-national infrastructure investment in 20 European...

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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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How many bucks in a bang : on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict

Groot, Olaf J. de; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of...

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Violent conflict and inequality

Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010

This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising...

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Beyond the overall economic downturn : evidence on sector-specific effects of violent conflict from Indonesia

Vothknecht, Marc; Sumarto, Sudarno - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of violent conflict on economic growth using micro-level data from Indonesia. We compile a panel dataset at district level for the period 2002-2008, and disentangle the overall negative economic effect of violent conflict into its sectoral components. Our results...

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Does euro area membership affect the relation between GDP growth and public debt?

Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2012

We analyse the relationship between the debt to GDP ratio and real per capita GDP growth for the euro area members by distinguishing between periods of sustainable and non-sustainable debt. Thresholds are theory-based and depend on the macroeconomic framework. If the interest rate exceeds...

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A further examination of the export-led growth hypothesis

Dreger, Christian; Herzer, Dierk - 2011

This paper challenges the common view that exports generally contribute more to GDP growth than a pure change in export volume, as the export-led growth hypothesis predicts. Applying panel cointegration techniques to a production function with non-export GDP as the dependent variable, we find...

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