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We conduct a systematic study of the impact of European Union (EU) regional policies on regional economic growth that controls for national policies and geographic characteristics. Special care is taken in distinguishing between the impact of EU policies and of national policies on economic...
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Tourism is currently one of the largest and most dynamically developing sectors of the world. In many countries … between the tourism industry and processes of economic growth and development on regional level. Croatia has been divided into … 20 counties and the capital city of Zagreb. The purpose is to investigate the impact of tourism on the economic growth of …
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questions about the viability of the current productive structure of the Greek economy and its over-reliance on tourism. Our …
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Many studies have focused on spatial patterns in economic growth. For the case of Europe, these studies have indicated … revealed. Second, by applying this methodology on geographical distance, new results on spatial growth patterns in Europe are …
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A major objective of this study is to analyse the evolutionary patterns of regional linkages and disparities across the EU space, especially those related to rural and peripheral/remote regions. In particular, this report assesses the economy-wide effects, in terms of GDP and employment,...
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The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
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The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …
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In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...
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in the overall economic trends in Europe in a regional context. In addition, in influence of innovation on the …
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In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out tourism has a positive impact on economic growth, thus … supporting the findings of (Sequeira and Campos, 2005). The sample covers Western Europe. Data are taken from Eurostat. The …
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