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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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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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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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The Impact of Public Spending on the Performance of Microfinance Institutions
Janda, Karel; Zetek, Pavel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper investigates the role of public expenditures and general government debt in microfinance performance. Our panel regression applied to the data of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean confirms the high significance of public finance for the growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108562
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740393
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Growth and the pollution convergence hypothesis: A nonparametric approach
Ordás Criado, Carlos; Valente, Simone; Stengos, Thanasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The pollution-convergence hypothesis is formalized in a neoclassical growth model with optimal emissions reduction …. A Markov modeling approach predicts further cross-country absolute convergence, in particular for SOX. The latter … results hold in the presence of spatial non-convergence in per capita income levels within both regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565432