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Social capital, economic growth and regional development

Iyer, Sriya; Kitson, Michael; Toh, Bernard - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 8, pp. 1015-1040

Iyer S., Kitson M. and Toh B. (2005) Social capital, economic growth and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1015-1040. This paper examines the relationships between social capital, economic performance and regional development, and it stresses the complexity and variability across space...

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Commercial Property Price Indexes: Problems of Sparse Data, Spatial Spillovers, and Weighting

Silver, Mick; Graf, Brian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

Transaction-price residential (house) and commercial property price indexes (RPPIs and CPPIs) have inherent problems of sparse data on heterogeneous properties, more so CPPIs. In an attempt to control for heterogeneity, (repeat-sales and hedonic) panel data regression frameworks are typically...

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Guns, highways and economic growth in the United States

Kollias, Christos; Paleologou, Suzanna-Maria - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 449-455

Given its significant policy implications, the nexus between public expenditures and economic growth has been the subject of an extensive and often emotive theoretical and empirical debate. The nexus between two types of public expenditures and economic growth is examined in this paper using...

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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...

Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014

stable stylised fact, or whether it is a new phenomenon, the outcome of a process of convergence towards the current '50 …

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Long Term Structural Changes in the EU Countries (1970-2000): Convergence or Divergence in the Agri-Food System?

Peroni, Marco; Brasili, Cristina; Fanfani, Roberto - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

years in order to verify the presence of a convergence process towards a more homogeneous structure among EU countries. This … consumption) and how they change over time. The analysis of convergence utilise the European National Accounting Data (from the … SEC2 Data Base of Eurostat) from 1970 to 2000 for twelve EU countries. We use tests of convergence on cross section data …

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Real economic convergence and the impact of monetary policy on economic growth of the EU countries: The analysis of time stability and the identification of major turning points ba...

Próchniak, Mariusz; Witkowski, Bartosz - Narodowy Bank Polski - 2012

This study analyzes the time stability of both the GDP beta convergence and the impact of monetary policy variables on … – at 3% p.a. (2) The pure mechanism of conditional convergence of the countries under study was rather constant over time …

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Stability and Change in Managerial Work Values: A Longitudinal Study of China, Hong Kong, and the U.S.

Ralston, David A.; Pounder, James; Lo, Carlos W.H.; … - In: Management and Organization Review 2 (2006) 1, pp. 67-94

, and the U.S. Using hierarchical cluster analysis, we test the validity of the three competing perspectives ¥V convergence …

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Convergence Clubs of State-Level Agricultural Productivity in the U.S.A.

Fousekis, Panos - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 59 (2006) 4, pp. 481-501

The objective of the present study is to investigate empirically the existence of convergence clubs in state …

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Africa does not need IFRS

Sy, Aida; Tinker, Tony - In: African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-8

A great deal of hype surrounds the so-called revolution in accounting standard setting. The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) enterprise aims to introduce a single global accounting and financial reporting language that would standardise reporting practices throughout the globe....

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Policy Initiative Dilemmas Surrounding Media Convergence: A Cross National Perspective

Menon, Siddhartha - In: Prometheus 24 (2006) 1, pp. 59-80

The discourse surrounding convergence of mass media content and infrastructures has been fraught with extravagant … convergence issue in order to explore the disconnect between the hype and realities of convergence. Three research questions … characterize the relevant existing policy initiatives, identify obstacles to convergence and in comparativist terms ascertain which …

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