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Does globalization affect regional growth? : evidence for NUTS-2 regions in EU-27

Polasek, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2011 - Preprint

We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between … growth enhancing eff ect accrues from the structural funds expenditures in the EU. …

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The effects of government bond purchases on leverage constraints of banks and non-financial firms

Kühl, Michael - 2016

This paper investigates how government bond purchases affect leverage-constrained banks and non-financial firms by utilising a stochastic general equilibrium model. My results indicate that government bond purchases not only reduce non-financial firms' borrowing costs, amplified through a...

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Regional dynamics of private pension funds in Romania : 51th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, 30th August - 3rd September 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Constantinescu, Dan - 2011

The number of participants in the private pension funds, as well as the volume of their contribution, differs significant in each development region. It goes without saying that the territorial distribution of the indicators related to pension funds are influenced, on the one hand, by the offer...

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The distribution of the economic activity in European region : identification of cluster

López, Fernando A.; Angulo, Ana M.; Mur, Jésus; Artal … - 2011

Agglomeration economies play an important role in the explanation of the development and regional growth. For this reason, there exists a growing interest in the analysis of standards of co-localisation of the economic activities. This topic has been dealt with from different approaches using a...

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Spatial diversity in cereal crops : what do we learn from CAP reforms? : a farm-level analysis

Capitanio, Fabian; Gatto, Elisa; Marino, Alba; … - 2013

On-farm agricultural biodiversity conservation has long been recognized as a fundamental resource to the maintenance of ecologic and economic functions. Among the factors affecting biodiversity, institutional failures at different scales are reported as potential causes of biodiversity loss both...

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What about regions in regional science? : an exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy

Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Cravo, Túlio - 2013

in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs … within countries at finer scales (NUTS3 level) rather than between EU countries. Furthermore, these findings hold when we …

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Trends in convergence in EU : differences between EU-10 and EU-15

Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2013

convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical evidences from the EU history have confirmed this process. Intuitively …, some authors could consider that current crisis seems to affect convergence in EU. Contrary, how our analysis demonstrated … the period of last decade a significant convergence in EU, in matter of GDP per capita. However, differences in matter of …

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Institutional differences, economic integration and regional growth : general theme T

Geerdink, Carlie; Stauvermann, Peter - 2013

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From periphery to core : economic adjustments to high speed rail

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - 2010 - Version: September 2010

This paper presents evidence that high speed rail systems, by bringing economic agents closer together, sustainably promote economic activity within regions that enjoy an increase in accessibility. Our results on the one hand confirm expectations that have led to huge public investments into...

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Common currency, common market?

Friberg, Richard - 2003

Does the common currency promote goods market integration within the EMU? We argue that such an effect is likely, but that the mechanism typically proposed lover costs of arbitrage because of increased price transparency is likely to be of minor importance. Instead we sketch a duopoly model...

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