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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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Spatial Dependence in House Prices: Evidence from China¡¯s Interurban Housing Market
Gong, Yunlong; Boelhouwer, Peter; Haan, Jan de - European Regional Science Association - 2014
¡°Spatial thinking¡± is increasingly popular in housing market studies and spatial dependence across properties has been widely investigated in the intra-city housing market. The contribution of this paper is to study the spatial dependence and spillover effect of house prices from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075810
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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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Agency Conflicts, Expropriation and Firm Value: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China
Henk, Berkman; Rebel, Cole; Fu, Lawrence - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In this study, we examine the wealth effects of regulatory changes intended to improve corporate governance by protecting minority shareholders from expropriation by controlling shareholders. Using data from publicly traded Chinese firms, we find that these new regulations significantly...
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China's Regional Convergence in Panels with Multiple Structural Breaks
Matsuki, Takashi; Usami, Ryoichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This study investigates the existence of regional convergence of per capita outputs in China from 1952 …’s provincial real per capita outputs to examine the regional convergence in China. To obtain the p-values of unit root tests for … Carlo simulation. The results obtained from this study reveal that the convergence of the provincial per capita outputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621418
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Political connections and minority-shareholder protection: Evidence from securities-market regulation in China
Berkman, Henk; Cole, Rebel; Fu, Lawrence - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We examine the wealth effects of three regulatory changes designed to improve minorityshareholder protection in the Chinese stock markets. Using the value of a firm’s related-party transactions as an inverse proxy for the quality of corporate governance, we find that firms with weaker...
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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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The Long-Term Effects of Protestant Activities in China
Chen, Yuyu; Wang, Hui; Yan, Se - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Does culture, and in particular religion, exert an independent causal effect on long-term economic growth, or do culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
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Rebalancing China’s economic growth: some insights from Japan’s experience
Muto, Ichiro; Fukumoto, Tomoyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the greatest challenges China faces is how to reshape its heavily investment-driven mode of economic growth. By investigating how the rebalancing of Japan’s economic growth mode was realized in the 1970s, we indicate that it is essential in the rebalancing to correct the distortions in...
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