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Regional productivity variation and the impact of public capital stock: an analysis with spatial interaction, with reference to Spain

Fingleton, Bernard; Gómez-Antonio, Miguel - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2011

In this paper we examine whether variations in the level of public capital across Spain?s Provinces affected productivity levels over the period 1996-2005. The analysis is motivated by contemporary urban economics theory, involving a production function for the competitive sector of the economy...

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Analysing the impact of public capital stock using the NEG wage equation: a panel data approach

Fingleton, Bernard; Gómez-Antonio, Miguel - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2009

This paper examines the relationship between the level of public infrastructure and the level of productivity using panel data for the Spanish provinces over the period 1984-2004, a period which is particularly relevant due to the substantial changes occurring in the Spanish economy at that...

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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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Simulating Wages and House Prices Using the NEG*

Fingleton, Bernard - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2009

The paper incorporates house prices within an NEG framework leading to the spatial distributions of wages, prices and income. The model assumes that all expenditure goes to firms under a monopolistic competition market structure, that labour efficiency units are appropriate, and that spatial...

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Where is the Economics in Spatial Econometrics?

Fingleton, Bernard; Corrado, Luisa - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2011

Spatial econometrics has been criticized by some economists because some model specifications have been driven by data-analytic considerations rather than having a firm foundation in economic theory. In particular this applies to the so-called W matrix, which is integral to the structure of...

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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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