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A Meta-Analysis of Beta-Convergence: The Legendary Two-Percent

Abreu, Maria; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - 2005

The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …

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Productivity effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge

De Borger, Bruno L.; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2019

Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal expansions of the rail or highway network over time. In this paper, we study the short-run effects of a large discrete shock in the quality of transport infrastructure, viz....

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2014

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...

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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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Growth and Inequality: A Meta-Analysis

de Dominicis, Laura; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Florax, … - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

de Groot, Henri L.F.; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - 2007

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...

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The Regional Impact of Monetary Policy in Indonesia

Ridhwan, Masagus M.; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Rietveld, Piet; … - 2011

This paper employs Vector Autoregression (VAR) models to measure the impact of monetary policy shocks on regional output in Indonesia. Having incorporated a possible structural break following the aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian Crisis, the impulse response functions derived from the estimated...

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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net … net migration impact that is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth rather than neoclassical convergence …

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Unravelling urban advantages - A meta-analysis of agglomeration economies

Donovan, Stuart; de Graaff, Thomas; de Groot, Henri; … - 2021

A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta-analysis to explore this variation, drawing on...

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Data Sparseness and Variance in Accounting Profitability

Stavropoulos, Spyridon; Burger, Martijn J.; Skuras, Dimitris - 2015

A central question in strategic management is why some firms perform better than others. One approach to addressing this question empirically is to decompose the variance in firm-level profitability into firm, industry, location, and year components. Although it is well established that data...

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