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Disparity in emergency medical services across Japan
Takimoto, Taro; Sakata, Kazuya; Nakajima, Kazunori; … - 2015
By using a prospective, nation-wide, population-based out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) database (All-Japan Utstein … Registry, January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2012), we examined the disparity in emergency medical services across Japan and found … significant disparities among prefectures. By dividing Japan into seven parts, Hasegawa et al. (2013) analysed regional …
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A panel data analysis of temporary and permanent effects of fixed broadband penetration over economic growth
Candelaria, José Alberto - 2015
This article presents an econometric analysis for the effects of fixed broadband penetration on the growth rate of GDP per capita for a panel of 35 developed and developing countries over an annual period of 33 years (1981 - 2013). The article contributes to the telecommunications literature by...
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Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - 2013
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional quality calculated using data on the provision of four areas of public service: health, educational...
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Income convergence, migration and geography : distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2010
Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among regions in an integrated market with high mobility of labor,...
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Two-stage least squares random forests with a replication of angrist and evans (1998)
Biewen, Martin; Kugler, Philipp - 2020
We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized Random Forests, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, 2019) and provide a software implementation for R and C++. We use the method to revisit the classic application of instrumental...
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How do distinct firm characteristics affect behavioural additionalities of public R&D subsidies? : empirical evidence from a binary regression analysis
Wanzenböck, Iris; Scherngell, Thomas; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2011
In the recent past, interest of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) policies to influence the innovation behaviour of firms has been increased considerably. This gives rise to the notion of behavioural additionality, broadening traditional evaluation concepts of input and output...
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Observed and unobserved regional determinants of FDI inflows : micro level analysis of the food industry firms in Russia
Gladysheva, Anna; Ratnikova, Tatiana - 2014
Observed and unobserved regional determinants of FDI inflows: micro level analysis of the food industry firms in Russia The development of Russian food industry is strategically important. Theoretically, the foreign capital inflow will help to renovate, modernize it and increase the...
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Ranking German regions using interregional migration : what does internal migration tells us about regional well-being?
Wirth, Benjamin - 2013 - (Preliminary draft), this version: 21st June 2013
This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product, household incomes, unemployment or quality of life estimates. Therefore we estimate regional utility differentials for German states and planning regions following the approach...
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Joint knowledge generation in European R&D networks : results from a latent regression - index function model
Reinold, Florian; Paier, Manfred; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2012
The objective of this study is to explore the determinants of joint knowledge generation within European networks of R&D collaboration. This study distinguishes between two types of joint knowledge generation: scientific and commercially relevant knowledge generation. Joint generation of...
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The regional distribution of unemployment : a microeconomic perspective
López-Bazo, Enrique; Motellón, Elisabet - 2011 - (Preliminary version)
Regional disparities in unemployment rates are large and persistent, particularly in some economies such as Spain. Previous contributions to the literature have provided evidence on their magnitude and evolution, as well as on the role of some economic, demographic and environmental factors in...
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