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How institutions shape the economic returns of public investment in European regions
Àlvarez Ayuso, Inmaculada; Barbero, Javier; Orea, Luis; … - 2023
In this paper, we examine the impact of institutional quality on the returns on key drivers of economic growth in 230 European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions from 2009 to 2017. To estimate region-specific elasticities, we employ a latent class modelling approach, considering the quality of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336610
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Quality of government and the returns of investment : examining the impact of cohesion expenditure in European regions
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Garcilazo, Enrique - 2013
This paper sets out to examine the impact of the quality of local and regional governments on the returns of investment, focusing on the returns of EU structural and cohesion funds. Despite the widespread belief that the quality of government affects the returns of public investments, whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767293
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Federal, state, and local governments : evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J. (contributor);  … - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781387
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel C. - 2013 - Last Revision: April 2013
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity …. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are … essentially uncorrelated with income levels. -- Economic Growth ; Conditional Convergence ; Heterogeneity ; U.S. County Level Data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727539
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Can the economic impact of political decentralisation be measured?
Ezcurra, Roberto; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859696
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Robust correlates of county-level growth in the US
Higgins, Matthew David (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003526446
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Infrastructure and regional growth in the European Union
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526617
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A spatial analysis of incomes and institutional quality : evidence from US metropolitan areas
Bologna, Jamie; Lacombe, Donald J.; Young, Andrew T. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362949
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Do we follow the money? : the drivers of migration across regions in the EU
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Ketterer, Tobias - 2011
Most immigration theories tend to highlight that migration follows wealth and economic dynamism, but is this also the case across regions in Europe? The aim of the paper is to investigate whether migrants in Europe indeed follow the money and to contrast this with a variety of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551240
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Institutions vs. "first-nature" geography : what drives economic growth in Europe's regions?
Ketterer, Tobias; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521671