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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? : an empirical analysis for Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...

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Markov or not Markov : this should be a question

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence …

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Output, Growth, and Convergence in a Creative Region : An Analysis of Some Measurement Issues

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017

creative regions. We focus first (second) on absolute (relative) convergence. In the absolute (relative) convergence case, the … convergence case, we analyze how to estimate the speed of convergence parameter (σ) and then discuss the relationship between the … variance of y<sub>j</sub>(t) and that of y<sub>j</sub>(0). In the relative convergence case, we study the error associated with …

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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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Regional evidence on the finance-growth Nexus

Vaona, Andrea (contributor) - 2006

The Finance-Growth Nexus is a classical source of debate among economists. This contribution offers regional evidence on this issue in order to see if it can meet the data within a 140 years old economic union -- Italy -, in the ideal context for its main competitor - New Economic Geography -...

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The religious transition : a long-run perspective

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2009

We use factor analysis to derive a robust measure of religiosity from items reported in five waves of the World Value Survey. Our measure of religiosity is negatively correlated with per capita income. Development apparently causes religiosity to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most...

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Can oil-led growth and structural change go hand in hand in Ghana? : a multi-sector intertemporal general equilibrium assessment

Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2012

Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...

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Macroeconomic constraints on economic development and poverty reduction : the case of Bolivia

Schweickert, Rainer - 2001

Bolivia's macroeconomic performance in the period 1994 to 1998 is analyzed and compared with the performance in former periods and the performance of other developing countries (grouped according to income, region, and debt status). This allows to assess what has been achieved in Bolivia since...

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Die Entwicklungschancen Lateinamerikas : ein Blick über die Argentinien-Krise hinaus

Schweickert, Rainer - 2002

Der Beitrag analysiert die Argentinien-Krise, vergleicht die makroökonomische Entwicklung von Argentinien, Brasilien, Chile und Mexiko seit der Mexiko-Krise und entwickelt Indikatoren zur Beurteilung der Entwicklungschancen dieser Länder. Für Argentinien wie für Brasilien, Chile und Mexiko...

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Donors’ openness to immigration and the effectiveness of foreign aid

Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015

We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...

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