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Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021

We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...

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Decentralization as an Incentive Scheme When Regional Differences are Large

Salmon, Pierre - 2009

of office-holders which is based on yardstick competition among governments. The paper addresses that question and … mechanism of yardstick competition induces a convergence of economic performance among European Union member countries, even … degree of regional differentiation is not sufficient for yardstick competition to work and bring about an improvement in …

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Economic Growth and Dualism in Italian Regions : A Spatiotemporal Model

Brasili, Cristina; Bruno, Francesca; Saguatti, Annachiara - 2012

The topic of regional economics and business cycles has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, an analysis of the dynamics and the features of economic growth in different areas is hampered by the fact that official Italian GDP statistics at the regional level are not updated...

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Geographic Factors and China's Regional Development Under Market Reforms, 1978-1998

Bao, Shuming; Chang, Gene H; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Woo, … - 2003

This study investigates the geographic effects on regional economic growth in China under market reforms. We develop a model for the regional growth pattern of the Chinese economy during the period, characterized by foreign direct investment (FDI) and mobilization of rural surplus labor. The FDI...

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Geographic Factors and China's Regional Development Under Market Reforms, 1978-98

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Chapter 4. Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Temple, … - 2014

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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Regional Inflation Dynamics Using Space-Time Models

Marques, Helena - 2010

This paper provides empirical evidence of the role of spatial factors on the determination of inflation dynamics for a representative set of tradable commodities in Chile. We present a simple model that explains inflation divergence across regions in a monetary union with similar preferences as...

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Spatial Distribution of Regional Innovation Growth Capability and Policy Responses

Huh, Mun-Gu; Kim, Yunsoo - 2023

Concerns are mounting over the potential for weak future growth as the Korean economy faces a wide range of structural issues including an aging society, a crisis in key regional industries, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to these concerns, the Korean government has established innovation growth...

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Environmental Protection and Free Trade: IndirectCompetition for Political Inuence

Zhihao Yu - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 1999

This paper shows that although small or nancially constrained environmentalistgroups may be in a weak position, relative to polluting industries, in the directcompetition for political inuence, they can compete indirectly through changingpublic preferences over environmental quality. However, in...

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Competition for business location : a survey

Dembour, Carole - In: Journal of industry, competition and trade 8 (2008) 2, pp. 89-111

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