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Modelling Manufactured Exports: Evidence from Australian States

Norman, David - Reserve Bank of Australia - 2006

This paper looks at the determinants of national manufactured exports through the use of a panel of Australian states. The panel approach is taken to assess whether the coefficient instability present in direct estimates of export elasticities can be alleviated by utilising the cross-state...

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Adaptations of Conventional Spatial Econometric Models to Count Data

Brännäs, Kurt - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

The paper suggests and studies count data models corresponding to previously studied spatial econometric models for continuous variables. A novel way of incorporating spatial weights is considered for both time and space dynamic models with or without simultaneity. The paper also contains a...

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Can internet infrastructure help reduce regional disparities? : evidence from Turkey

Celbis M.G.; de, Crombrugghe D.P.I. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This study presents novel evidence regarding the role of regional internet infrastructure in reducing regional per … capita income disparities. We base our study on the assumptions that 1 the diffusion of information homogenizes regional … regions of Turkey, we find evidence that internet infrastructure has contributed to regional convergence during the period …

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Regional income convergence in India: A Bayesian Spatial Durbin Model approach

Soundararajan, Pushparaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

A debate on the regional disparity is always an interesting topic. This study analysed the regional income disparity in …

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Evaluating the Impacts of Local Economic Development Policies On Local Economic Outcomes: What Has Been Done and What is Doable?

Bartik, Timothy J. - 2002

This paper argues that more rigorous evaluations of local economic development policies are feasible. Programs that aid selected small firms can be rigorously evaluated using an experimental approach, without excluding firms from assistance, by randomly assigning some firms to receive more...

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Investment scenarios and regional factors in the solar energy sector

Liarnkobas, Panagiōtēs; Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos - In: Economics and Business Letters : EBL 5 (2016) 3, pp. 95-104

This paper examines the effects of regional factors related to macroeconomic, environmental and energy data in relation … to regional investment attractiveness to the Greek solar energy sec-tor. Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process method …, the paper explores the significance of some criteria with reference to the regional investment attractiveness of solar …

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Regional convergence and divergence in Latin American:A state of the art

Cuervo González, Luis Mauricio - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2004) 5, pp. 29-65

Barro &Sala-i-Martin (1995)growth s model has been a theoretical reference to Latin American studies on regional …

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Strategies for Economic Development

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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The Role of Welfare and Space in the Migration of the Poor

Cushing, Brian - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2005

This study investigates whether interstate differences in welfare benefits affected destination choices of low-income households in the United States during the 1985-90 period. It considers place-to-place migration decisions of poor single-parent females within a conditional logit framework. The...

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FOSTERING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE, A PILLAR FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

STET, Mihaela - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2014) 5, pp. 75-80

The potential of SME in the development of economy makes it necessary to find solutions to expand the role of entrepreneurship in the economy. Fostering it and the development of an entrepreneurial culture represents levers for solving some problems such as: unemployment, the economic growth in...

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