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Spatial panel data estimation, counterfactual predictions, and local economic resilience among British towns in the Victorian era

Fingleton, Bernard; Palombi, Silvia - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 4, pp. 649-660

We explore the relative ability of local economies to retain their long-run growth dynamics when faced by the destabilizing effects of major shocks. Taking annual wage series for nineteen U.K. towns over the historical period 1871–1906, we fit a spatial panel data model to 1871–1890 data and...

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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented Solow model

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …

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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented Solow model

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Dreger, Christian; Türck, Matthias - 2006

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Evaluating China's road to prosperity: A new economic geography approach

Roberts, Mark; Deichmann, Uwe; Fingleton, Bernard; Shi, Tuo - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 4, pp. 580-594

Over the last two decades, China has embarked on an ambitious program of expressway network expansion. By facilitating market integration, this program aims to promote efficiency at the national level and contribute to the catch-up of lagging inland regions. This paper evaluates the short-run...

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