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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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Interregional spillovers and urban-rural disparity in U.S. employment growth
Saito, Hisamitsu; Gopinath, Munisamy; Wu, JunJie - 2010
A wide urban-rural disparity is observed in employment growth in the United States. For example, employment growth averaged 2.1 percent in urban counties during 1998-2007, compared with just 1 percent in rural counties. In this study, we examine the sources of U.S. employment growth using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573731
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Industrial clusters as source of prospering regions? : economic structure and regional performance 1996-2005
Kubis, Alexander; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2010
within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209009
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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth: evidence from U.S. counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276862
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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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Institutions Versus Geography : Subnational Evidence from the United States
Clifton, Eric V. - 2006
Empirical studies of the impact of geography and institutions on growth and development at the international level have become common place, but the high degree of abstraction at that level has led to calls for subnational studies. This paper examines these issues for a region of the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779512
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Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence : Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew John; Levy, Daniel - 2015
In this paper we outline (i) why sigma-convergence may not accompany beta-convergence, (ii) discuss evidence of beta-convergence … sigma-convergence has not occurred at the county-level across the U.S., or within the vast majority of the individual U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029829
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Sigma Convergence versus Beta Convergence : Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew John; Levy, Daniel - 2015
In this paper we outline (i) why sigma-convergence may not accompany beta-convergence, (ii) discuss evidence of beta-convergence … sigma-convergence cannot be detected at the county-level across the U.S., or within the large majority of the individual U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026226
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The elusive quest for the holy grail of an impact of EU funds on regional growth
Fidrmuc, Jan; Hulényi, Martin; Zajkowska, Olga - 2019
We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle the potential problem of endogeneity, and estimating a spatial model to account for inter-regional spillovers. We use the presence of environmentally protected areas (under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138778
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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth : evidence from U.S. counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919883