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SPILLOVER DIFFUSION AND REGIONAL CONVERGENCE: A GRAVITY APPROACH
Giovanni, Guastella; Francesco, Timpano - In: Regional Science Inquiry 2 (2010) 2, pp. 71-82
convergence is still open. Much, of course, depends on the spatial extension of spillovers. The aim of this work is to study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658724
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SPILLOVER DIFFUSION AND REGIONAL CONVERGENCE: A GRAVITY APPROACH
Giovanni, Guastella; Francesco, Timpano - In: Regional Science Inquiry II (2010) 2, pp. 71-82
convergence is still open. Much, of course, depends on the spatial extension of spillovers. The aim of this work is to study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659281
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O necessário, o possível e o impossível: Uma leitura do papel das políticas públicas diante dos limites à coordenação de grandes investimentos na periferia metropolitana Fluminense...
Sobral, Bruno Leonardo Barth - 2015
Over the last decades, the challenge of giving support to national economic growth process has become an undisputed issue. Since the second term of the Lula government, the theme of resumption of investment was imposed. In particular, the State of Rio de Janeiro benefited from a cycle of large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444823
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Ciclo e crise: Limites à capacidade de um crescimento econômico sustentado na periferia metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro diante do ciclo recente de grandes investimentos
Sobral, Bruno Leonardo Barth - 2015
The metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro has an urban structure "macrocefálica" in which the hinterland remains "the shadow of the metropolis" with other reduced centrality. However, in the recent period, there was the advent of large investment projects in its periphery, notably in the steel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444831
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Disparidades do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) per capita no Brasil: Uma análise de convergência em diferentes escalas regionais (1970-2008)
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos - 2013
This paper investigates the evolution of the Brazilian per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - known as sigma-convergence … the scale reduction. This suggests the occurrence of a distinct convergence process of the per capita GPD between the two … North and Northeast and the convergence for the rest of the country. This result shows that there is not one scale that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330925
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Political electoral cycles and public investments in Brasil
Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372187
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Ciclos políticos eleitorais e investimentos das administrações públicas no Brasil
Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in public investments in Brazil. This approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling whose greatest benefit is estimating the cyclical component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372358
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Determinantes regionais da produtividade industrial: O papel da infraestrutura
Schettini, Daniela; Azzoni, Carlos Roberto - 2015
This paper evaluated the role of infrastructure on the productivity of industries in the Brazilian mesoregions. We found that infrastructure positively affects the efficiency of industries, although due to the size of the estimated coefficients, this influence is small. Considering the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444839
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Impacts of Regional Growth on Farmland Development in the Northeast U.S.
Hailu, Yohannes; Brown, Cheryl - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007
This study models the relationship between regional growth and agricultural land development in the Northeast United States. A system of simultaneous equations is estimated using three-stage-least squares on county-level data. Results indicate that regional growth puts upward pressure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904069
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Impacts of Regional Growth on Farmland Development in the Northeast U.S.
Hailu, Yohannes; Brown, Cheryl - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007
This study models the relationship between regional growth and agricultural land development in the Northeast United States. A system of simultaneous equations is estimated using three-stage-least squares on county-level data. Results indicate that regional growth puts upward pressure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929291