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Convergence and Regional Productivity Divide in Italy: Evidence from Panel Data
Aiello, Francesco; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
endogeneity, we find two key results for the growth of Italian regions. Firstly, we show that the rate of conditional convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089337
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616935
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Convergence: the Case of the European State Members
Sousa, Cândido T.; Pereira, Elisabeth T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study aims to examine the absolute and conditional convergence across the 27 EU Member States. To examine the … absolute β convergence was used Baumol model (1986) estimated by OLS and Panel Data, and to examine the absolute σ convergence … the Quah model (1993) by graphical analysis. Subsequently, we analyzed the conditional convergence, also estimated by OLS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167233
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Методы анализа межрегионального неравенства по доходам и их приложение к России
Gluschenko, Konstantin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper provides an overview of methodologies used to analyze inter-regional income inequality, and a critical survey of empirical studies that deal with Russian regions. It discusses implications of the growth theory regarding dynamics of inter-economy income inequality. Methodologies for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549635
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Dynamic relationships between oil revenues, government spending and economic growth in an oil-dependent economy
Sbia, Rashid; Hamdi, Helmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between Oil revenues, government spending and GDP growth in the kingdom of Bahrain. Oil revenues are the main source of financing government expenditures and imports of products. Increasing oil prices in the recent years have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275135
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Robust Correlates of County-Level Growth in the U.S.
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Higgins et al. (2006) report several statistically significant partial correlates with U.S. per capita income growth. However, Levine and Renelt (1992) demonstrate that such correlations are hardly ever robust to changing the combination of conditioning variables included. We ask whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621380
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The laffer curve and the debt-growth link in low-income Sub-Saharan African economies
Megersa, kelbesa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The study of the link between debt and growth has been full of debates, both in theory and empirics. However, there is a growing consensus that the relationship is sensitive to the level of debt. Our paper tries to address the question of non linearity in the long term relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259050
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Shift in tax burden and its impact on economic growth in the European Union
Szarowska, Irena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article deals with a tax burden in the European Union in as financial and economic crisis has impacted also on tax systems in the European Union. Governments´ tax measure aims to consolidate public finance and promote an economic growth. The article provides empirical evidence on a shift...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109362
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211218
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Causality between Public Expenditure and Economic Growth: The Turkish Case.
Bağdigen, Muhlis; Çetintaş, Hakan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper takes into account recent advances in econometric techniques and examines Wagner’s Law of long-run relationship between public expenditure and GDP for the Turkish case over the period of 1965-2000. The relationship is supposed public expenditure to be an outcome, not cause, of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619513