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Thomas, Alex M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper revisits the work of Richard Cantillon and Francois Quesnay in order to conceptualise the dynamics between rural and urban areas in an economy. Concepts of social surplus and economy as a circular flow are presented in order to highlight the interrelationship between the growth...

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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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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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Economic growth and the optimum size of government in 15 European countries: A threshold panel approach

Hajamini, Mehdi; Falahi, Mohammad Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In the growth literature, there is a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and government size, which is similar to an inverted U-shaped curve. This curve can be used to determine the optimum share of government expenditures. This paper, using threshold panel approach, attempts to...

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Testing for Stochastic and Beta-convergence in Latin American Countries

Escobari, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper uses time-series data from nineteen Latin American countries and the U.S. to test for income convergence … using two existing definitions of convergence and a new testable definition of β-convergence. Only Dominican Republic and … convergence exists when allowing for structural breaks using the two-break minimum LM unit root of Lee and Strazicich (2003). The …

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What about regions in regional science? An exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union

Resende, Guilherme; Cravo, Tulio - European Regional Science Association - 2013

the empirical results caused by the use of different spatial scales in the analysis of convergence process of European … (MAUP). Thus, convergence processes among EU15 are examined across three spatial scales often used in applied work, namely …, NUTS1, NUTS2 and NUTS3, between 2000 and 2008. The paper suggests that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on 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 …

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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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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?

Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014

The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...

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Economic growth dynamics across countries.

Ewa, Lechman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Economic growth is one of the most important issues discussed worldwide. Its dynamics over time seem to be crucial from the perspective of the ability of poor countries to catch up with highly developed economies. As can be easily noticed in world statistics, both GDP per capita and GDP growth...

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