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Space and growth
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342567
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The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth : a spatial panel approach
Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392771
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Regionale Verteilung raumwirksamer finanzieller Staatshilfen im Kontext regionalwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung
Plankl, Reiner - 2012
Der Arbeitsbericht beschreibt unter Bezug auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung die regionale Verteilung regionalwirtschaftlich relevanter raumwirksamer finanzieller Staatshilfen in der Förderperiode 1995 bis 2008. Betrachtungseinheiten sind die Bundesländer sowie die ländlichen und nicht...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009547500
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Regional convergence in Germany: A geographically weighted regression approach
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Türck, Matthias - 2005
The convergence of German regions represents a politically explosive question. Different studies examined convergence … processes of Germany. We derive equations to estimate the convergence speed on basis of a Solow model, to which human capital is … added. The geographically weighted regression permits a detailed analysis of convergence processes, which has not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266904
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The mysteries of the trade: Employment effects of urban interindustry spillovers
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2010
Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward-backward linkages, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers (the Marshallian forces). While the existence of these externalities as a whole is well supported by the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286677
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Regional Population-Employment Dynamics across Different Sectors of the Economy
de Graaff, Thomas; van Oort, Frank G.; Florax, Raymond … - 2011
An important subset of the literature on agglomeration externalities hypothesizes thatintrasectoral and intersectoral relations are endogenously determined in models of localand regional economic growth. Remarkably, structural adjustment models describing thespatio-temporal dynamics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326283
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Regionale Arbeitsmärkte in der „Großen Rezession“ : Dynamik regionaler Arbeitslosenquoten in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien im Krisenjahr 2009
Reiner, Christian - 2010
Regional labour markets in the „Great Recession“: The evolution of regional unemployment rates in Germany, France and the United Kingdom in 2009. Contrary to the already encompassing literature on the differentiated effects of the “Great Recession” on states, the article takes a regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731773
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Regional population-employment dynamics across different sectors of the economy
Graaff, Thomas de; Oort, Frank van; Florax, Raymond J. G. M. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720751
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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757366
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The language effect in international trade: A meta-analysis
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - 2011
Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken)...
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