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Joakim, Westerlund; Johan, Blomquist - 2009

Many empirical studies of the economics of crime focus solely on the determinants thereof, and do not consider the dynamic and cross-sectional properties of their data. As a response to this, the current paper offers an in-depth analysis of this issue using data covering 21 Swedish counties from...

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Income Inequality between Chinese Regions: Newfound Harmony or Continued Discord?

Lyhagen, Johan; Rickne, Johanna - 2011

-existence of divergence and conditional convergence among China's regions. …

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Dynamics of Chinese Comparative Advantage

Hinloopen, Jeroen; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2004

We analyze the dynamics of Chinese comparative advantage as measured by export shares and the Balassa index using 3-digit and 4-digit sectors for the period 1970 – 1997. We use novel tools to identify periods of rapid structural change and the persistence of comparative advantage, such as...

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A spatial interpretation of the persistency of China's provincial inequality

Yu, Xiaofan - 2011

China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra … development, this paper investigates the nexus between the spatial dependence and income inequality in China on a prefectural … also the choropleth maps of clusters in China, this paper reaches the conclusion that clusters of prefectures and provinces …

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Channels of interprovincial consumption risk sharing in the People's Republic of China

Du, Julan; He, Qing; Rui, Oliver M. - 2011

This paper analyzes consumption risk sharing among provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during 1980 - 2007 …

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Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China

Wilson, Ross - 2015

governance and economic growth at the provincial level in China during the reform era. I find a significant and positive effect … not been a key factor in China's rapid growth, and support the proposition that governance reforms are often a consequence …

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The role of proximity to universities for corporate patenting: Provincial evidence from China

Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2012

corporate patenting activities in China as found in the previous literature for Western economies. In China, however, these …

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Price Convergence across Regions in India

Das, Samarjit; Bhattacharya, Kaushik - 2004

The paper attempts to examine whether there is price convergence across various regions in India. Our results indicate significant presence of cross-sectional de- pendence in prices in India, rendering some of the standard panel unit root tests inapplicable. Using various panel unit root tests...

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Pooled Unit Root Tests in Panels with a Common Factor

Westerlund, Joakim - 2005

This paper proposes new pooled panel unit root tests that are appropriate when the data exhibit cross-sectional dependence that is generated by a single common factor. Using sequential limit arguments, we show that the tests have a limiting normal distribution that is free of nuisance parameters...

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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...

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