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The role of fiscal transfers for regional economic convergence in Europe
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Nickel, Christiane; … - 2009
-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005. We find that net fiscal transfers …. -- Fiscal policy, convergence ; regional economic growth ; regional migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832335
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LIBERALIZATION, PUBLIC SPENDING AND CONVERGENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: AN SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC MODEL
Jorge E, Mendoza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
results showed conditional convergence for the region from 1950 to 1975, and both absolute and conditional divergence from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621348
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493290
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Convergence Clubs determined by Economic History in Latin America
Quiroga, Barrientos; Andrea, Paola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The concept of club convergence has been widely used in empirical analysis to group countries in clubs with similar … test convergence within each club. I find significant and positive convergence speed within each of the clubs, implying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110182
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Public finances and long-term growth in Europe
De Ávila, Diego Romero; Strauch, Rolf - 2003
In Lisbon the European Council proclaimed a European growth strategy. It considers an average economic u0093growth rate of around 3 percent as a realistic prospect for the coming yearsu0094 and assigns public finances an important role in the process of achieving this goal. This paper addresses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635955
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The Influence of Religious Beliefs and Ethnic Diversity on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Latin America and Muslim Countries
DelaCruz, Juan J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In the absence of substantial differences in the growth rates of per capita GDP across countries, what are the factors that explain the rapid spread of the HIV infection within a nation? This is an empirical question that needs to be explained. In order to elucidate the correlation between HIV...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836411
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Foreign Debt and Domestic Savings In Developing Countries
Luke, Okafor; Joanna, Tyrowicz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper approaches the question of potential causality between foreign debt and domestic savings in the context of developing countries. Literature provides evidence in as far as foreign debt and development is concerned, but little attention was given so far to internal potential for capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000669
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Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries
Bah, El-hadj M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Dierences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross- country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622016
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Economic Size and Debt Sustainability against Piketty's Capital Inequality
cho, hyejin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate alternative variables measuring economic growth. A capital-labor split of Cobb-Douglas function is adapted for use in the context of economic growth. A capital/income ratio and two fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071615
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The great equalizer?: Globalization effects on gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators, and in some cases, conditions have worsened. Despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790313