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This work analyzes the process of convergence of the per capita incomes of Mexico and the USA from 1954 to 2008. It was …-1982. It is then analyzed the process of convergence to see if the variables are co-integrated and to verify the stability of …, from 1954 to 1982, and the second, from 1992 to 2008. During the period 1954-1982, a process of absolute convergence …
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Iyer S., Kitson M. and Toh B. (2005) Social capital, economic growth and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1015-1040. This paper examines the relationships between social capital, economic performance and regional development, and it stresses the complexity and variability across space...
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This study investigates whether the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship is supported for a measure of biodiversity risk and economic development across the United States (US). Using state-level data for all 48 contiguous states, biodiversity risk is measured using a Modified Index...
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Transaction-price residential (house) and commercial property price indexes (RPPIs and CPPIs) have inherent problems of sparse data on heterogeneous properties, more so CPPIs. In an attempt to control for heterogeneity, (repeat-sales and hedonic) panel data regression frameworks are typically...
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Given its significant policy implications, the nexus between public expenditures and economic growth has been the subject of an extensive and often emotive theoretical and empirical debate. The nexus between two types of public expenditures and economic growth is examined in this paper using...
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This study evaluates three alternative locations for building a fresh water dam in the Yesilirmak Valley of North Cyprus. Each of the three sites has different investment costs, water storage capabilities and socio-political repercussions. These kinds of tradeoffs have in recent years...
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stable stylised fact, or whether it is a new phenomenon, the outcome of a process of convergence towards the current '50 …
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years in order to verify the presence of a convergence process towards a more homogeneous structure among EU countries. This … consumption) and how they change over time. The analysis of convergence utilise the European National Accounting Data (from the … SEC2 Data Base of Eurostat) from 1970 to 2000 for twelve EU countries. We use tests of convergence on cross section data …
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This article, adapted from Tamura?s theoretical proposition, empirically investigates capital convergence in three … indicate moderate evidence of convergence among the three-country groups when conventional variables are included. The … convergence ?picture? is quite different when additional variables are empirically examined, implying the existence of a …
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