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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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Cultural diversity and economic performance : evidence from European regions
Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco … - 2009
We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...
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The effects of the EU Cohesion Policy on regional economic growth : using structural equation modelling for impact assessment
Maucorps, Ambre; Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2020
This paper analyses the effects of the EU Cohesion Policy (CP) on the economic growth of 276 European NUTS-2 regions between 2008 and 2016. Using a structural equation model (SEM) consisting of both a measurement component (with two latent variables) and a structural component, we estimate the...
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On the economic effects of a reallocation of EU cohesion policy expenditures
Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2020
-run convergence and short-run economic performance. …
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A spatial econometric analysis of land use efficiency in large and small municipalities
Guastella, Giovanni; Pareglio, Stefano; Sckokai, Paolo - 2017
We estimate the relationship between urban spatial expansion and its socio-economic determinants in Lombardy, the most urbanised region of Italy (and one of the most urbanized of the European Union), at the municipality level. Test results suggest that this relationship varies significantly...
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The impact of public expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth and income distribution in Peru
Baca Campodónico, Jorge F.; Peschiera Cassinelli, Jorge R. - 2014
The Peruvian economy has exhibited remarkable growth in the past 20 years. Good tax and monetary policies, along with comprehensive structural adjustment, which has attracted substantial foreign investment, are regarded as the pillars of this success. Notwithstanding the advances experienced on...
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Growth-friendly fiscal rules? : safeguarding public investment from budget cuts through fiscal rule design
Ardanaz, Martín; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Izquierdo, Alejandro - 2020
We show that some types of fiscal rules can mitigate the well-known procyclical bias in public capital expenditures. Past research has found that fiscal adjustment episodes coincide with large public investment cuts, a pattern we also document in a sample of 75 advanced and emerging economies...
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The output effects of fiscal consolidations : does spending composition matter?
Ardanaz, Martin; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Izquierdo, Alejandro - 2021
This paper studies whether changes in the composition of public spending affect the macroeconomic consequences of fiscal consolidations. Based on a sample of 44 developing countries and 26 advanced economies during 1980-2019, results show that while fiscal consolidations tend to be on average,...
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Convergence during the oil crisis : a comparison of labour productivity in manufacturing of the planned and market economies
Kochnev, Artem - 2024
This paper examines labour productivity convergence in manufacturing of the planned and market economies in the setting … impact of the oil price shocks on convergence in productivity levels across industries between 1970 and 1985. Although the … paper does not find an impact of the oil price shocks on convergence of the command economies, it does detect an …
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Stochastic differential utility as the continuous-time limit of recursive utility
Kraft, Holger; Seifried, Frank Thomas - 2013
We establish a convergence theorem that shows that discrete-time recursive utility, as developed by Kreps and Porteus …
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