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Regional economic growth and SMEs in Brazil : a spatial analysis
Cravo, Túlio - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector for a panel of 503 Brazilian micro-regions for the period 1980-2004 using panel spatial econometrics. It investigates the importance of the SME sector size measured by the share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172216
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What about regions in regional science? : an exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Cravo, Túlio - 2013
in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543405
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Regional income convergence in Europe : a Bayesian model averaging perspective : 52th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International August 21-25, 2012, Bratis...
Gmeinder, Michael; Piribauer, Philipp; Schoiswohl, Florian - 2012
The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509195
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Spatial externalities and growth in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil world : theory and evidence
Fischer, Manfred M. - In: International regional science review : IRSR ; an … 41 (2018) 1, pp. 45-61
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879315
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Regional Income Convergence in the Enlarged Europe, 1995-2000: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Fischer, Manfred M.; Stirböck, Claudia - 2004
This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in … with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial error convergence model with groupwise heteroskedasticity is found … data provide much support for unconditional ß-convergence in Europe. The second is that the usual convergence conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297367
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Regional Economic Growth and SMEs in Brazil: a Spatial Analysis (Submission for the Refereed Y-session Papers).
Cravo, Túlio - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector for a panel of 503 Brazilian micro-regions for the period 1980-2004 using panel spatial econometrics. It investigates the importance of the SME sector size measured by the share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332414
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REGIONS, TECHNOLOGICAL INTERDEPENDENCE AND GROWTH IN EUROPE
Fischer, Manfred M. - In: Romanian Journal of Regional Science 3 (2009) 2, pp. 1-17
This paper presents a theoretical neoclassical growth model with two kinds of capital, and technological interdependence among regions. Technological interdependence is assumed to operate through spatial externalities caused by disembodied knowledge diffusion between technologically similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632971
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Regional Income Convergence in the Enlarged Europe, 1995-2000: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Fischer, Manfred M.; Stirböck, Claudia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in … with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial error convergence model with groupwise heteroskedasticity is found … data provide much support for unconditional ß-convergence in Europe. The second is that the usual convergence conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097596
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Total factor productivity effects of interregional knowledge spillovers in manufacturing industries across Europe
Scherngell, Thomas; Fischer, Manfred M.; Reismann, Martin - In: Romanian Journal of Regional Science 1 (2007) 1, pp. 1-16
The objective of this study is to identify knowledge spillovers that spread across regions in Europe and vary in magnitude for different industries. The study uses a panel of 203 NUTS-2 regions covering the 15 pre-2004 EU-member-states to estimate the impact over the period 1998-2003, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572343
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Industrial clusters and economic performance in Brazil
Pires, José Claudio Linhares; Cravo, Túlio; Lodato, Simon - 2013
Industrial clusters, which are commonly targeted to receive financial support allocated to locally based development projects, are seen as an effective industrial policy tool for improving productivity and generating employment. Nevertheless, identifying clusters and assessing their economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286278