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The balance of payments can act as a constraint to the rate of growth of output, on putting a limit to the growth in the level of demand to which supply can adapt. This effect might be even stronger for regional economies, presumably more integrated among them. In this paper, we examine this...
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German regional data (NUTS 1 level) for GDP, trade, and FDI activity during the period 1976-2005. Applying various … of positive and negative effects of trade/FDI on output activity for a system of interconnected regions. …
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Territorial cooperation, taken as collaboration "beyond national boundaries", among administrative bodies and/or political actors, generally offers the ground for functional cooperation towards problem-solving and challenge-tackling, along with the exploitation of the local and regional...
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This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity (TFP) in Europe. Regional patent stocks are used as a proxy for knowledge, and TFP is measured in terms of a superlative index. We follow Fischer et. al (2008) by using a...
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I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and nonlinear hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest that an upward shift in employment, triggered for...
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high-income countries matters and within the EU geographic proximity is a better technology diffusion channel than trade …
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This paper analyzes the changes that occurred in Moldova’s trade of agricultural and food products since the … implementation of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with European Union. The research will include the analysis … of Moldova’s foreign trade activity from the perspective of agricultural and food products, the changes that occurred in …
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total production, the purchase and sales price, the incomes obtained from the sale and the trade balance on the main …
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by using a gravity model of trade for the year 2000 (see Márquez-Ramos and Martínez-Zarzoso, 2009). We found that the … effect of technological innovation on trade varies according to the technological achievement by generating a non …-linear relationship between technological innovation and trade. A natural extension of this research is to use a panel dataset to fully …
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extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was …
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