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Urban Economic Growth in Europe Between 2001 and 2008 – Gravitation or Dispersion?

Neumann, Uwe; Budde, Rüdiger; Ehlert, Christoph - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …

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Estimation and analysis of labor productivity in Spanish cities

Rubiera-Morollón, Fernando; Fernández-Vázquez, … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2012) 22, pp. 129-151

The relationship between city size and territorial productivity hasattracted much attention in the urban economic literature. Some theories on thefield claim for a strong positive correlation between the size of the municipalitiesand their income, mainly motivated by economical reasons,...

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Regional productivity variation and the impact of public capital stock: an analysis with spatial interaction, with reference to Spain

Fingleton, Bernard; Gómez-Antonio, Miguel - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2011

In this paper we examine whether variations in the level of public capital across Spain?s Provinces affected productivity levels over the period 1996-2005. The analysis is motivated by contemporary urban economics theory, involving a production function for the competitive sector of the economy...

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Labour Productivity Polarization Across Western European Regions: Threshold Effects Versus Neighbourhood Effects

Basile, Roberto - In: The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement. A New …

The regional distribution of labour productivity in Western Europe is characterised by a Core-Periphery spatial pattern …

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Productivity polarization across regions in Europe

Basile, Roberto - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Perugia - 2007

The regional distribution of labor productivity in Western Europe is characterised by a Core-Periphery spatial pattern …

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Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches

Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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...

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What Causes What? Panel Cointegration Approach on Investment in Telecommunication and Economic Growth: Case of Asian Countries

Mehmood, Bilal; Siddiqui, Wasif - In: Romanian Economic Journal 16 (2013) 47, pp. 3-16

This study empirically examines long run relationship between investment in telecommunication and economic growth in selected Asian countries. We resort to econometric tests such as panel unit root tests and panel cointegration test purposed by Pedroni (1997, 1999) for annual data from 1990-2010...

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The distributional effects of NAFTA in Mexico: Evidence from a panel of municipalities

Baylis, Kathy; Garduño-Rivera, Rafael; Piras, Gianfranco - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 286-302

This paper studies the regional distribution of benefits from trade in Mexico after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Specifically, we ask whether or not NAFTA increased the concentration of economic activity in Mexico. Unlike previous work which uses state-level data, we identify...

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Economic Growth and Structural Changes in Regional EmploymenT

Jula, Dorin; Jula, Nicolae Marius - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2013) 2, pp. 52-69

In a recent paper, Professor Dobrescu (2011) analyses the relationship between sectoral structure and economic growth, using data on the world economy for the period 1970-2008. In this paper, we try to extend this relationship at regional level. Concretely, using the Toda-Yamamoto version of the...

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Human Capital and Regional Growth in Switzerland

Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2010

This paper develops a regional production function model for Swiss cantons that incorporates human capital together with spatial effects. Within a spatial panel framework we find that controlling for time effects the spatial spillover effect becomes insignificant. Our results are sensitive with...

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