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Robust Correlates of County-Level Growth in the U.S.

Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Higgins et al. (2006) report several statistically significant partial correlates with U.S. per capita income growth. However, Levine and Renelt (1992) demonstrate that such correlations are hardly ever robust to changing the combination of conditioning variables included. We ask whether the...

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Factors of Economic Growth in Russia’s Regions

Drobyshevsky, Sergey; Lugovoy, Oleg; Astafieva, Ekaterina; … - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2005

The monograph deals with analysis of the factors that determine the diversity in the degree and pace of economic development of Russia's regions. In particular, basing on the data of main socio economic indicators of RF constituent regions' performance, the authors have empirically tested...

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MEGACITIES AND COUNTRIES: URBANIZATION AND REAL CONVERGENCE

Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - European Regional Science Association - 2014

ABSTRACT. A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9...

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Growth in Australian Cities.

Bradley, R.; Gans, J. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 1996

This paper is an empirical investigation of the determinants of city growth in Autralia from 1981 to 1991. Our basic goal is to explain the population and labour force growth of a cross section of cities in the time period using variables representing the final characteristics of cities.

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Do institutions matter for regional economic growth and development? : the case of Turkey : ERSA 2011 Congress: 30th August-03rd September 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Degirmenci, Serkan - 2011

Many cross-country studies acknowledge the indispensable role of institutions in promoting economic growth and in sustaining economic development. So, their emphases have shifted to determine the most influential institution(s) in order to be specific. While these papers are widespread in the...

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China’s Consumer Market : Growth, Changes, and Korea’s Opportunities

Lee, Jinkook - 2017

This paper examines the aspects of changes in China's consumer market since the mid-1980s. By comparing urban and rural residents' expenditures, I find that the rural consumer market has exhibited extraordinary growth. Over the past decade, the consumption growth rate and average propensity to...

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The effect of regional entrepreneurship culture on economic development : evidence for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2014

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …

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Benchmarking study about R&D and Innovation at the Spanish

Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala - EconWPA - 2005

The aim of this paper is the realization of a Benchmark analysis about the relative position of the Valencian Innovation System. This comparison has been threefold comparing the Spanish, Mediterranean and European regions. In order to undertake this analysis, on the one hand, for the Spanish...

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UNE ANALYSE EXPLORATOIRE DES DISPARITÉS RÉGIONALES DANS L'EUROPE ÉLARGIE

ERTUR, Cem; KOCH, Wilfried - In: Region et Developpement 21 (2005), pp. 65-92

The aim of this paper is to study the regional inequalities in the enlarged European Union using Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis applied to per capita GDP for 258 European regions over the period 1995-2000. Strong evidence in favor of global and local autocorrelation as well as spatial...

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Monitoring Poverty without Consumption Data: An application using the Albania panel survey

Azzarri, Carlo; Carletto, Gero; Davis, Benjamin; Zezza, … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2005

In developing countries poverty is generally measured with expenditure data. Such data are difficult and costly to obtain and it is generally recommended to collect them every 3-5 years. In between surveys, however, there is a clear need to provide policymakers with information for the...

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