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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 factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...

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Product diversification, relative specialisation and economic development : import-export analysis

Parteka, Aleksandra; Tamberi, Massimo - 2013 - This version: August 2013

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … particular, by focusing on the diversification of imports, we add a missing piece to already analysed export trends. We use …), they follow a similar path of evolution in the development process. Progressing relative diversification (despecialisation …

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Long-term growth determinants of young businesses in Germany : effects of regional concentration and specialisation

Otto, Anne; Fornahl, Dirk - 2008

specialisation and diversification ; GLS model …

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Policy volatility and growth

Chong, Alberto (contributor); … - 2006

A growing body of recent macroeconomic evidence suggests that volatility is detrimental to economic growth. The channels through which volatility affects growth, however, are less clear; substantive evidence based on disaggregate data is almost non-existent. This paper offers a framework in...

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Spatial income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000

Reis, Eustáquio José - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 2, pp. 119-140

The paper provides historical perspectives on spatial economic inequalities in Brazil making use of a database on Brazilian municipalities from 1872 to 2000. A suit of maps and graphs describe the geographic factors shaping the historical development of the Brazilian economy highlighting the...

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Sequential City Growth : Empirical Evidence

Cuberes, David - 2008

Using two comprehensive datasets on population of cities (1800-2000) and metropolitan areas (1960-2000) for a large set of countries, I present three new empirical facts about the evolution of city growth. First, the distribution of cities growth rates is skewed to the right in most countries...

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Regional integration and economic development : an empirical approach

Dion, David-Pascal - 2004

This paper contributes to the empirical literature by providing a quantitative measurement of the influence of regional trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge spillovers in a multi-country model. The...

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What makes cities bigger and richer? : new evidence from 1990 - 2000 in the US

González-Val, Rafael - 2011

This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1154 cities). The results show that while a...

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Türkiye'de sanayi sektörü - ikisadi büyüme ilis̜kisinin kaldor hipotezi çerçevesinde test edilmesi

Arısoy, İbrahim (contributor) - 2008

, regardless of the specification and estimation techniques employed, suggest that the models can partly explain the developments …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618427

Economic Growth, Convergence and Innovation in the EU Regions

Paas, Tiiu - 2012

The paper focuses on quantitative assessment of the innovation's role in explaining regional disparities and convergence in Europe. The empirical part of the study bases on the regional GDP pc and innovation indicators on the EU-27 NUTS2 level regions. Based on the selected set of initial...

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