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Regional Convergence and Spatial Dependence : A Worldwide Perspective
Sanso-Navarro, Marcos - 2020
This paper incorporates technological interdependence into a neoclassical regional growth framework with imperfect factor mobility, leading to a convergence equation with spatial effects. The empirical analysis is based on the estimation of a spatial Durbin panel data model and the...
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Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments : the transport sector in Latvia
Dobrinevski, Alexander; Jachnik, Raphaël - 2020
Mitigating climate change requires aligning real economy investments with climate objectives. This pilot study measures the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated at EUR 1.5 billion per year on average. To do so,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422659
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Efficiency of world ports in container and bulk cargo (oil, coal, ores and grain)
Merk, Olaf; Dang, Thai Thanh - 2012
Port efficiency is an important indicator of port performance; more efficient ports lower transportation costs and … almost exclusively focused on container ports. This Working Paper aims to fill that gap by calculating efficiency scores of … world ports per cargo type (containers, oil, coal, iron ore and grain). These calculcations have been made using a database …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688642
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Unconditional convergence in currency unions : an analysis of European regions from 1991 to 2009
Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013
We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely heterogenous, highly discontinuous and strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424527
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The link between regional temperature and regional income : econometric evidence with sub-national data
Greßer, Christina; Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2020
We study the effect of temperature on economic development on the sub-national level, employing cross-sectional data for up to 15,533 sub-national units from two distinct sources. In contrast to the existing cross-country literature on the temperature-income relationship, our setting allows us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200932
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Chapter 4. Regional Growth and Regional Decline
Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Temple, … - 2014
Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025593
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The Causal Economic Effects of Olympic Games on Host Regions
Firgo, Matthias - 2020
This paper studies the effects of hosting Olympic Games on the regional economy in the short and long run. For identification, runners-up in the Olympic bidding process are used to construct the counterfactual for Olympic host regions. In the short run, hosting Summer Olympics boosts regional...
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Human Capital Spillovers and Regional Development
Sanso-Navarro, Marcos - 2016
This paper introduces technological interdependence à la Ertur and Koch (Growth, technological interdependence and spatial externalities: Theory and evidence. Journal of Applied Econometrics 2007; 22: 1023-1062) into the theoretical framework of Gennaioli et al. (Human capital and regional...
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Backs to the wall : strategies of cluster firms at the beginning of the global economic crisis of 2008
Fuchs, Stefan; Wrobel, Martin - In: Homo oeconomicus 32 (2015) 3/4, pp. 427-449
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Cultural and Creative Industries and Regional Development : Creativity Where and Why
Dellisanti, Roberto - 2023
The rise of CCIs: setting the scene -- In pursuit of creativity in CCIs -- An original framework for the identification of creativity in CCIs -- Location behaviours of CCIs: towards new research trajectories -- Where is creativity? Data and methodology to measure CCIs across EU regions --...
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