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We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
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We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address...
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Solow (1956) has made an essential contribution to the Neo-classical growth approach through the economic convergence …. Convergence could occur either among a group of economies with the same steady states or within regions in which their fundamental … dynamics differ, and thus they exhibit multiple steady states. This study aims to investigate convergence with respect to GDP …
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This study investigates the impact of various economic sectors on household income in Thailand. It is conducted in light of the substantial "digital wallet" scheme initiated by the Thai government, with the goal of providing empirical evidence and suggesting alternative policies for regional...
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Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
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The cross-country convergence hypothesis is one of the central topics of long-run macroeconomics. This paper revisits … beta convergence is first documented. Next, the paper incorporates some recent developments from the unsupervised machine … learning literature to evaluate the existence of local convergence. In particular, the application of a distribution …
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Economic integration and globalization are expected to promote economic growth and convergence. This article offers a … convergence literature aims to establish whether catching-up processes have been successful. This article verifies the existence … become fewer and larger. However, growth path divergences persist and suggest a cluster-based convergence. Integration …
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impact of the euro on economic convergence. The DPS method ensures a forensic examination of the diverse variable patterns … that influence cluster memberships. As with previous research conclusions, there are multiple patterns of convergence and … nominal convergence. An example is the divergence of the experience of consumer inflation between 2016 and 2022. Nevertheless …
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A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...
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The smart specialization concept was implemented in the EU in 2014, stating that regions have to specify specialization areas for development of innovations. Economic specialization reveals a comparative advantage in that field. However, there are different arguments linking specialization to...
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