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Dutch Disease, Factor Mobility Costs, and the ‘Alberta Effect’ – The Case of Federations
Raveh, Ohad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Do reduced costs of factor mobility mitigate ‘Dutch Disease’ symptoms? The case of federations provides an indication for this. By investigating ‘Resource Curse’ effects in all federations for which complete data is available at the regional level it is observed that within federations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871149
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The Natural Resource Curse, Fiscal Decentralization, and Agglomeration Economies
Raveh, Ohad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
resource curse, employing the World Bank’s Fiscal Decentralization Indicators, and taking the United States as a case study. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871191
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616935
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Robust Correlates of County-Level Growth in the U.S.
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Higgins et al. (2006) report several statistically significant partial correlates with U.S. per capita income growth. However, Levine and Renelt (1992) demonstrate that such correlations are hardly ever robust to changing the combination of conditioning variables included. We ask whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621380
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Conceptualising rural-urban dynamics
Thomas, Alex M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper revisits the work of Richard Cantillon and Francois Quesnay in order to conceptualise the dynamics between rural and urban areas in an economy. Concepts of social surplus and economy as a circular flow are presented in order to highlight the interrelationship between the growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836739
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LESSONS OF INDIAN EXPERIENCE FOR ERITREA
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Both India and Eritrea are developing countries. India as a leader of Third world made a huge stride in human resource … development and agriculture development where as Eritrea, a young nation still striving hard to develop these areas and thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789373
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Which comes first—urbanization or economic growth? Evidence from heterogeneous panel causality tests
Liddle, Brantley; Messinis, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Heterogeneous panel causality tests are employed to consider the relationship between urbanization change and economic … that relationship. Urbanization caused economic growth in high income countries, but non-causality could not be rejected …-income, predominately African countries where economic growth had a positive, causal effect on urbanization, but where urbanization, in turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258397
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Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry
Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159354
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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations
Bluedorn, John C.; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472253
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Where russians should live: a counterfactual alternative to Soviet location policy
Mikhailova, Tatiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the extent of distortions in Russia's spatial economy that are inherited from the Soviet system. Using Canada as a benchmark for spatial dynamics of economic activity in a market economy, I construct the spatial allocation of population that would result in Russia, given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418481