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Agglomeration, Spatial Interaction and Convergence in the EU
Bräuninger, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2005
We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295468
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Age Structure and Regional Income Growth
Brunow, Stephan; Hirte, Georg - 2005
A spatial econometrics cross-section analysis of the NUTS2 regions of the EU15 is carried out to examine whether the age structure of the regional population or differences in the regional age pattern affect growth of regional per capita income. We apply two parsimonious models of the age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296771
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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301178
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Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273782
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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth: evidence from U.S. counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276862
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The role of fiscal transfers for regional economic convergence in Europe
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Nickel, Christiane; … - 2009
-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005. We find that net fiscal transfers …, while achieving regional redistribution, seem to impede output growth and promote an “immiserising convergence”: output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605075
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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? An empirical analysis for Germany
Bode, Eckhardt - 2001
Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265496
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Cross-sectional space-time modeling using ARNN(p, n) processes
Kakamu, Kazuhiko; Polasek, Wolfgang - 2007
We suggest a new class of cross-sectional space-time models based on local AR models and nearest neighbors using distances between observations. For the estimation we use a tightness prior for prediction of regional GDP forecasts. We extend the model to the model with exogenous variable model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294016
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Convergence and the effects of spatial interaction
Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the issue of income convergence has received considerable attention in economic … scarce. The present paper is an attempt to provide additional information on the spatial aspect of convergence. Spatial … econometric methods are used to investigate regional convergence in West Germany. The results indicate that spatial interaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295602
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Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches
Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008
This paper analyses the growth e®ects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298662