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Growth agglomeration effects in spatially interdependent Latin American regions

Rosero, Grace Carolina Guevara - 2015

Theoretical approaches have been developed to examine the effect of agglomeration on growth. However, the understanding of the mechanisms of agglomeration in developing countries remains unaddressed. This paper aims to give empirical evidence of the role of agglomeration on the growth of Latin...

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Modern trends and risks in the development of resource regions of Russia

Ilina, Irina; Leonard, Carol Scott; Pliseckij, Evgenij - 2014

This paper, part of a larger project on governance and growth in Russia. It deals with the problems and priorities of the future development of primary producer regions of Russia. We design a regional strategy for socioeconomic development to 2025-2030. The analysis concerns growth and...

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Agglomeration externalities and urbanization in Ecuador

Rosero, Grace Carolina Guevara; Riou, Stephane; … - 2015

The spatial agglomeration of economic activities play a crucial role on productivity but the composition of such an agglomeration is what really matters. There exists an ongoing debate between the predominance of the effects of agglomeration from specialization and diversity. This paper aims to...

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Does it Make a Difference? Comparing Growth Effects of European and North American FDI in Latin America

Tondl, Gabriele; Prüfer, Patricia - 2007

FDI from the European Union (EU) ranks before FDI from North America (NA) in some of the Latin American countries. We investigate the impact of EU- versus NA-FDI on the growth rate including about 50 controls. Country specific effects and parameter heterogeneity are incorporated in our...

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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Latin America: Is Schumpeter Right?

Bittencourt, Manoel - 2011

In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more widespread access to all sorts of finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1980 and 2007. The results, based on panel time-series data and analysis, confirm the Schumpeterian prediction...

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District Policy being ahead of the Urban in Integrated Planning of Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey, the Example of Konya

Levend, Sinan; Erdem, Rahmi - 2014

government whose framework is outlined in the Law for Metropolitan Municipalities, over the notion of integrated planning. It is … planning within the metropolitan municipalities are not always in coordination. Within the scope of this study, first the … provisions of the Law for Metropolitan Municipalities were reviewed; afterwards the process regarding the chosen sample area was …

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Empirical analysis of the influence of voters and politicians in the public choice of Portuguese municipalities universidade portucalense

Cruz, José Manuel - 2004

When estimating a specification combining different influences on local public choice, three public issues of different ideological attributes were compared for two periods of Portuguese local government intervention: the beginning and the ending of one electoral cycle. The most exciting results...

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Regional Impact Analyses and the Appropriate Treatment of public budget constraints under devolution: An application to Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - 2010

There have been numerous studies of the "impact" of HEIs on their host regions. These have typically focused on the demand for goods and services in the host region. The best of these studies employ regional input-output analyses. However, there has developed a "policy scepticism" about the...

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Measuring Fiscal Sustainability on the Municipal Level: A German Case Study

Hagist, Christian; Vatter, Johannes - 2010

The consequences of ageing populations for federal and state fiscal policies are, due to the research efforts of the last two decades, well known. However, it is rather less well known how the municipal level is affected. Therefore, by using a modification of the sustainability definition...

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Consequences of Debt Capitalization: Property Ownership and Debt/Tax Choice

Eichenberger, Reiner; Stadelmann, David - 2010

Public debts capitalize into property prices. This so far neglected fact has important consequences for the tax vs. debt choice. Property owners suffer more from the debt burden and, thus, have a stronger preference for tax financing of government spending than tenants. As a consequence of the...

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