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Spatial autocorrelation and Verdoorn law in the Portuguese nuts III
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker), at economic sectors level of the NUTs III of mainland Portugal, from 1995 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2005 (taking in count the data availability and the Portuguese...
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The criminality sprawl: The 'Boomerang effect' of public transport improvements
Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper aims to reveal the importance of public transport policies in the evolution of crime configuration and so, the vital responsibility of urban transports and criminality in social sprawl, entrepreneurial configuration and social structure on a city. Public transport policies have an...
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Testing Spatial Causality in Cross-section Data
Herrera Gómez, Marcos; Ruiz Marín, Manuel; Mur … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper shows a new non-parametric test, based on symbolic entropy, which permits detect spatial causality in cross-section data. The test is robust to the functional form of the relation and has a good behaviour in samples of medium to large size. We illustrate the use of test with the case...
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The Causal Relationship between Private and Public Investment in Zimbabwe
Muyambiri, Brian; Chiwira, Oscar; Enowbi Batuo, Michael; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study examines the relationship between private and public investment in Zimbabwe utilizing yearly time series data for the period 1970 to 2007. Emphasis is placed on the direction of causality and the effect of the two types of investment on each other. The paper constructs empirical models...
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Long term impact of a major infrastructure project: the port of Gioia Tauro
Genco, Mario; Sirtori, Emanuela; Vignetti, Silvia - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper illustrates the story of the Port of Gioia Tauro, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the period 1994-1998, but whose origin dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. It draws from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the...
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Inequality of level of living in the Russian Federation: some regional and municipal aspects
Bufetova, Anna - European Regional Science Association - 2014
issue of disparities and convergence in levels of living within regions and cities of the Russian Federation (the RF) in the … classification of RF regions and cities and evaluation of disparities and convergence tendencies of levels of living. The analysis of … dynamics of the synthetic indicators of level of living provides evidence for regional convergence of levels of living and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075826
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An Anaylsis in Order to Measure of Regional Development Agencies Performance and Their Impacts to the Regional Growth in Turkey
Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alı - European Regional Science Association - 2014
"Development" isn't only an economic notion but also it consist of so many meanings such as social, cultural manners, production and consumption ways. During the development process, development units could be growth in vary times and space. At this point what has to be told, which sector and...
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Finance-Growth-Crisis Nexus in India: Evidence from Cointegration and Causality Assessment
Fukuda, Takashi; Dahalan, Jauhari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper attempts to explore a new dimension of India’s ‘finance-growth-crisis’ nexus. For this end, the summary indicators of financial development, financial crisis and financial repression are created through the principal component approach, and we perform the cointegration and...
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Carbon emission and production technology: evidence from the US
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Production technology is the main driving force of economic growth while upgraded technology reduces carbon emission. This paper investigates the long run relation with short run dynamics using the USA data for the period of 1963 -2007. This paper observes that production technology is the cause...
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Causality and Efficiency in the Coffee Futures Market
Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity. However, beginning seven weeks to maturity there...
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