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What drives fiscal decentralisation? Further assessing the role of income
Bodman, Philip; Hodge, Andrew - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448196
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Understanding Foreign Direct Investment in the Southern African Development Community: An Analysis Based on Project-Level Data
Mhlanga, Nomathemba; Blalock, Garrick; Christy, Ralph D. - 2009
This paper uses a uniquely rich project-level dataset to analyze determinants and trends of FDI flows to the Southern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444838
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Testing for Convergence Clubs in Income Per-Capita: A Predictive Density Approach
Canova, Fabio - 2001
The paper proposes a technique to jointly tests for groupings of unknown size in the cross sectional dimension of a panel and estimates the parameters of each group, and applies it to identifying convergence clubs in income per-capita. The approach uses the predictive density of the data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442330
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Do Japanese Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Stimulate Agricultural Growth in East Asia? Panel Cointegration Analysis
Sattapon, Weerapong - 2006
The agricultural sector is an important sector that most people in East Asia rely on and growth in this sector may help to lift their standard of living. This study assessed what factors contributed to agricultural growth by applying the panel econometric approach. First, the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442485
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Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Wagner, Ulrich J.; Timmins, Christopher - 2008
control for endogenous, time-varying determinants of FDI flows. Furthermore, we propose a difference estimator based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475563
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A gravity model analysis of trade and direct investment in the Central and Eastern European Countries
Stack, Marie M. - 2010
group of EU OECD countries is of potential importance to the CEE countries. Merging the determinants for both trade and FDI … model of trade and FDI determinants is estimated using an instrumental variables method and when the additional price …, the traditional determinants of direct investment along with the liberalisation process and infrastructure endowments are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461308
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Measuring European Economic Integration
König, Jörg - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353188
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Is Income Inequality Endogenous in Regional Growth?
Hailu, Yohannes G.; Kahsai, Mulugeta S.; Gebremedhin, … - 2009
This study focuses on testing the relationship between income inequality and growth within U.S. counties, and the channels through which such effects are observed. The study tests three hypotheses: (1) income inequality has an inverse relationship with growth; (2) regional growth adjustments are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445798
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Essays on the Economics of Happiness.
Gregoire Rousseau, Jean-Benoit - 2009
The first chapter demonstrates that although it is possible to design utility functions that behave like empirical well-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to receive empirical validation. Under the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476583