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The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence … productivity at regional level. Presenting some empirical evidence of absolute convergence of productivity for each of the economic … empirical evidence of conditional convergence of productivity, for each of the economic sectors of the NUTS II of Portugal, from …
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The consideration of spatial effects at a regional level is becoming increasingly frequent and the work of Anselin (1988), among others, has contributed to this. This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in the NUTs III vine and olive crops...
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The consideration of spatial effects at a regional level is becoming increasingly frequent and the work of Anselin (1988), among others, has contributed to this. This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in the NUTs III vine crop of mainland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295288
productivity conditional convergence in the economic sectors of NUTs III of mainland Portugal between 1995 and 2002. Taking into … account the estimation results, it is stated once again that the indications of convergence are greater in industry, and it … can be seen that spatial spillover effects, spatial lag and spatial error, do not condition the convergence of …
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conditional product convergence in the parishes’ economies of mainland Portugal between 1991 and 2001 (the last year with data … indications of convergence (the population is in the littoral of Portugal) and it can be seen that spatial spillover effects … spatial autocorrelation through a spatially lagged error term) condition the convergence of product of Portuguese parishes in …
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capital in the conditional productivity convergence in the economic sectors of NUTs III of mainland Portugal between 1995 and … 2002. Taking into account the estimation results, it is stated once again that the indications of convergence are greater … convergence of productivity in the various economic sectors of Portuguese region in the period under consideration. In contrast …
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The aim of this paper is to study the impact of spatial effects on convergence process in Africa over the period 1975 … econometrics, we focus on the geographical dimension of economic convergence of African countries. This allows us to deal with … dynamics. Our results prove the existence of convergence process in Africa through a model with spatially autocorrelated error …
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This paper computes the fiscal stance in a small open economy and asses its position to relevant macroeconomic variables in order to protect the macroeconomic stability and promote development. Since 2006 change in income and tax structure shifts the implementation of fiscal policy, increasing...
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The paper reviews studies analysing the relationship between infrastructures and economic performance. Four different approaches are separately considered along an ideal path from theory-based to data-oriented models: the production function approach, the cost function approach, growth-models,...
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This paper describes the methods used to construct an index to measure the maritime potential of nations. This prototype uses a limited number of variables to measure (a) the locational advantage of having a long coastline in comparison to the landmass (Maritime Potential Index MPI) , (b) the...
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