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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
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On the relationship between economic integration, business environment and real convergence : the experience of the CEE countries
Głodowska, Agnieszka - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/54, pp. 1-19
The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article …10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration …
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How fast are the tourism countries growing? : the cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....
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Cultural diversity and economic performance : evidence from European regions
Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco … - 2009
We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...
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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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The effects of the EU Cohesion Policy on regional economic growth : using structural equation modelling for impact assessment
Maucorps, Ambre; Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2020
This paper analyses the effects of the EU Cohesion Policy (CP) on the economic growth of 276 European NUTS-2 regions between 2008 and 2016. Using a structural equation model (SEM) consisting of both a measurement component (with two latent variables) and a structural component, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012264978
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The link between regional temperature and regional income : econometric evidence with sub-national data
Greßer, Christina; Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2020
We study the effect of temperature on economic development on the sub-national level, employing cross-sectional data for up to 15,533 sub-national units from two distinct sources. In contrast to the existing cross-country literature on the temperature-income relationship, our setting allows us...
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Regional economic convergence in Turkey : does the government really matter for?
Gömleksiz, Mustafa; Şahbaz, Ahmet; Mercan, Birol - In: Economies : open access journal 5 (2017) 3, pp. 1-16
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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European Union cohesion project characteristics and regional economic growth
Darvas, Zsolt M.; Mazza, Jan; Midões, Catarina - 2021
Due to problems with existing methodologies that aim to identify the causal impact of European Union cohesion policy on economic growth, we adopted a novel methodology. We first estimated 'unexplained economic growth' by controlling for the influence of various region-specific factors, and then...
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