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Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe

Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and … Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic … for endogeneity and spatial dependence. Our empirical analysis provides evidence of a positive effect of agglomeration as …

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Opening the convergence black box: Measurement problems and demographic aspects

Azzoni, Carlos; Menezes-Filho, Naercio; Menezes, Tatiane - 2003

In this paper we address the issues involved with the use of microeconomic data, that is, household surveys, to compare the patterns of income growth among different regions instead of the commonly used aggregate data. In particular, we investigate the issues of aggregation of household income...

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Human capital and regional growth in Switzerland

Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 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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Austrian border regions and eastern integration: A low competitiveness - high growth paradoxon

Mayerhofer, Peter - 2002

cluster analyses we group 3-digit-industries to theoretically founded typologies indicating different sector characteristics … and find that (fast growing) rural border regions are dominated by industries that show disadvantageous characteristics …

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What Do We Know About Geographical Knowledge Spillovers and Regional Growth? A Survey of the Literature

Döring, Thomas; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2004

agglomeration effects, both of which constitute path dependence in the economic growth of regions. Second, the paper analyses the …

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

Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 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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Regional Economic Growth and Income Distribution in California

Woods, Jeffrey G. - 2007

This paper uses the Solow and Kuznets models to help explain the pattern and differences in economic growth and income distribution in four major regions within California. Using county-level data from 1969 to 1999, I estimated that statewide real per-capita personal income has diverged (become...

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The Impact of Firm-Type Dominance on Regional Manufacturing Growth

Salvary, Stanley C.W. - 2008

Availability of financial capital and location decisions are variables that influence regional manufacturing output. This study maintains that a region's manufacturing growth depends upon the region's firm-type dominance. That is, the type of firms that dominate the region's manufacturing output...

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The regional effects of professional sports franchises : causal evidence from four European football leagues

Brachert, Matthias - 2018

We use the locational pattern of clubs in four major professional football leagues in Europe to test the causal effect of changes in premier league membership on regional employment and output growth at the NUTS 3 level. We rely on the relegation mode of the classical round-robin tournament in...

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Regional Inequality and Growth Differentials in China

Shahid, Zubair - 2015

This paper attempts to survey the available literature on the issues of regional inequality and growth differentials in China, reviewing the convergence and divergence trends of real GDP and income across different regions of China. In this note, in addition to other papers, three main papers a,...

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