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When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net Domestic Product (SNDP) as an important proxy for...
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This paper investigates the time-varying correlation between the EU12-wide business cycle and the initial EU12 member-countries based on Scalar-BEKK and multivariate Riskmetrics model frameworks for the period 1980-2012. The paper provides evidence that changes in the business cycle...
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of non-neighboring cities, although this is due primarily to neighbors' tendency to be in the same state. In...
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Vietnam has been quite sucessful in attracting FDI inflows since the inception of economic reform in 1986. The inflow of FDI has contributed significantly to the economic development of Vietnam. Still, the determinants of FDI inflow and its impacts on the economy of Vietnam are under-researched....
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Coming from standard economic growth theory and empirical evidences, we concentrated on the convergence process as a result of structural changes in economy. We investigate the differences among countries in EU in terms of the share in total economy of main sectors. Then, based on the spatial...
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Die Gründungsdynamik im Bereich der Energiegenossenschaften setzt sich auf dem Niveau des Jahres 2011 fort. Zum Ablauf des Jahres 2012 waren 754 Energiegenossenschaften in den Genossenschaftsregistern eingetragen. Das Jahr 2012 übertrifft mit 199 Neueintragungen im Bereich der...
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discussion about the regional differences in Brazil will be made, while the methodology will be presented in the forth section …
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, the results indicated that when the impact is generated at the North-Northeastern Brazil, production and employment is …
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diachronic evolution of these specific housing policies in the paradigmatic case-study of Brazil, critically analysing the …
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