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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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Landlockedness and economic development : analyzing subnational panel data and exploring mechanisms

Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; Stadelmann, David - 2017

This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within-country-time variation only (e.g., regional variation...

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Productivity effects of trade in natural resources : comparison with mechanisms of technological specialisation

Zarach, Zuzanna; Parteka, Aleksandra - 2022 - This version: April 2022

estimation of a conditional convergence model. In general, reliance on natural resource exports slows growth, but we find that …

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Convergence of European natural gas prices

Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Polo, Michele - 2018

, their wholesale national gas markets are highly heterogeneous. We study the determinants of cross-country convergence of … pairwise, relative and σ-convergence. We show that there is evidence of pairwise price convergence and that some key … the existence of a convergence process. This result carries over to the notion of σ-convergence and is robust to a number …

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008 - This Version: November 16, 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group

Jetter, Michael - 2016

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and...

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Income and terrorism: insights from subnational data

Jetter, Michael; Mahmood, Rafat; Stadelmann, David - 2021

To better understand potential relationships between income and terrorism, we study data for 1,527 subnational regions in 75 countries between 1970 and 2014. Results consistently imply an inverted U-shape that remains robust to accounting for a comprehensive set of region-level covariates,...

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The global economic impact of politicians : evidence from an international survey RCT

Boumans, Dorine; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021

We use the US presidential election on 3 November 2020 to examine how the US president influences economic expectations of international experts. We design a large-scale RCT among 843 experts working in 107 countries, asking about their expectations regarding GDP growth, unemployment, inflation,...

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