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Mechanisms of Governance of Sustainable Development
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analyzing the mechanisms of governance of sustainable development. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961514
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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154852
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Социально-экономические аспекты регулирования регионального водопотребления в Омской области
Karpov, Valery; Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
consumption in the Omsk region. The authors analyze the situation with the water consumption in China, Kazakhstan and the Russian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113529
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Environmentally Unfriendly Consumption Behaviour: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence from Private Motorists in Mexico City
González, Alva; Ángel, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and the use of automobiles in Mexico City by analyzing three related aspects: i) relevant factors of driving patterns, ii) differences in the extent of pollution arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578221
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Regional human capital in Republican and New China: Its spread, quality and effects on economic growth
Van Leeuwen, Bas; van Leeuwen-Li, Jieli; Foldvari, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
less efficient. However, so far this question is difficult to analyse for China since we lack information on one of the … the provinces of China between 1922 and 2010. Using our new dataset, together with physical capital and per capita GDP …, whereas until the reform period China was largely driven by capital accumulation, afterwards general technical development got …
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Degrowth and sustainable public finance
Pasche, Markus - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459233
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Does economic geography matter for Pakistan? a spatial exploratory analysis of income and education inequalities
Ahmed, Sofia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
referred to as spatial autocorrelation. This paper analyzes for the first time, the spatial clustering of income, income …-economic regional characteristics. Global and local measures of spatial autocorrelation have been computed using the Moran’s I and the … Geary’s C index to obtain estimates of the spatial autocorrelation of spatial disparities across districts. The overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372542
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Similarity Of R&D Activities, Physical Proximity, and The Extent Of R&D Spillovers
Deltas, George; Karkalakos, Sotiris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The diffusion of knowledge generates positive externalities if knowledge flows increase the productivity of Research and Development (R&D) by the recipients of these flows. This paper investigates the extent to which this positive spillover effect of knowledge diffusion depends on the similarity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109575
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Ecosystems and the spatial morphology of urban residential property value: a multi-scale examination in Finland
Votsis, Athanasios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper provides evidence for the spatial effects of ecosystems on value formation and differentiation in the urban residential property market. An amenity-based location theory is used in conjunction with hedonic function estimations from the Finnish cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Pori to...
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