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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis

Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012

The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...

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Natural disasters, growth and institutions : a tale of two earthquakes

Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - 2013

We examine the impact of natural disasters on economic growth by applying a synthetic control approach. In contrast to previous literature, we adopt a within-country perspective, which allows us to use richer and more comparable data and to better define the geographic area hit by the disaster....

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Knowledge, innovation and economic growth : spatial heterogeneity in Europe

Capello, Roberta; Lenzi, Camilla - 2012

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

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Investigating the influence of bridging the digital divide on economic growth and corruption control : lessons from developmental economies to developing countries : the case of Ea...

Mekuria, Teklemariam; Kwon, Young-Sun - 2017

The digital divide is now a subject of priority and a serious concern to East African Countries. This research has been made to have comprehensive understanding of the level of the digital divide in Ethiopia including the neighbouring countries and identify the lessons of best performing...

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Innovation, public policy and growth : what the data say

Akcigit, Ufuk - In: Macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies, (pp. 9-22). 2022

Innovation and technological progress are the key determinants of long-run economic growth and welfare. Therefore, an … important question is, how can public policy encourage more innovation? In this chapter, I review some of the empirical findings … from various recent studies on innovation and firm dynamics that can shed light on the design of innovation policy. The …

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National innovation systems, economic complexity, and economic growth : country panel analysis using the US patent data

Lee, Keun; Lee, Jongho - In: Innovation, catch-up and sustainable development : a …, (pp. 113-151). 2021

This study examines the impacts of national innovation systems (NIS) and economic complexity index (ECI) on economic …

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Introduction: foundations of economic change : behavior, interaction and aggregate outcomes

Cantner, Uwe; Pyka, Andreas - In: Foundations of economic change : a Schumpeterian view …, (pp. 1-6). 2017

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Winning the oil lottery : the impact of natural resource extraction on growth

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel da; Toscani, Frederik - 2014 - Version: February 9, 2014

This paper studies the effect of oil discoveries on economic growth in Brazilian municipalities for the period from 1940 to 2000. It uses a unique identification strategy which exploits data on the drilling of approximately 20,000 oil wells in Brazil since oil explorations began in the country....

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Political stability and economic prosperity : are coups bad for growth?

Blum, Johannes; Gründler, Klaus - 2020

We provide evidence that political instability deteriorates economic growth. We establish this result based on panel difference-in-differences strategies and dynamic panel data models using a large sample of 180 countries, a novel geocoded dataset for 2,660 regions, and micro data for about...

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Low latency internet and economic growth : a simultaneous approach

Lüdering, Jochen - 2016

Given the quality of the available data on Internet access across several countries, it is necessary to evaluate alternative measures to assess the effect of Internet access on economic outcomes. The research at hand builds up on an earlier paper, which introduced a novel measure of Internet...

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