Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By … exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico-a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over the … lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation …

Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By … exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over …) the lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation …

Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By … exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over …) the lack of a homogenous, consistently comparable measure of crime and (ii) the small sample problem in the estimation …

There are evidences that the actual global crisis affected the convergence process in EU. Generally, just new adhered … convergence process will be affected. Synthetically, the pessimistic authors are viewing the future economic dynamics as one of so …-Swan model, Mankiw, Romer, and Weil model, etc.) and by empirical evidences, we are considering the convergence in the level of …

Coming from standard economic growth theory and empirical evidences, we concentrated on the convergence process as a … estimate a typology of the convergence process in the European area. Taking into account the existing differences among sectors … the strategies oriented to achieve a real convergence in EU and further in Adriatic-Balkans region. In this way, we can …