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Spatial dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK model
BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; CAMACHO, Carmen; FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
same (detrended) consumption over space and time, lead to convergence in the level of capital across locations in the long-run. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515823
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Regional Growth and Regional Decline
Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
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 modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702080
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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476318
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Spatial Unemployment Differentials in Colombia
ESCOBAR, Ana Maria DIAZ - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
This paper studies the geographic distribution of unemployment rates in Colombian urban areas. It introduces measures of spatial correlation and spatial econometric techniques to analyze the dependence in local unemployment rates across municipalities. Results suggest that Colombian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019028
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Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?
Lychagin, Sergey; Pinkse, Joris; Slade, Margaret E.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
Using US firm level panel data we simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three potential sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technological, and product market ("horizontal"). To do so, we construct new measures of geographic proximity based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646246
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The range of local public services and population size: Is there a “zoo effect” in French jurisdictions?
FRÈRE, Quentin; HAMMADOU, Hakim; PATY, Sonia - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
This article contributes to the small literature on the relationship between the range of local public services and population size. Using new data on French local jurisdictions, we test the hypothesis that larger jurisdictions provide a broader range of public goods (the so-called “zoo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074989
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The Costs of Urban Property Crime
Gibbons, Steve - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
This paper estimates the impact of recorded domestic property crime on property prices in the London area. Crimes in the Criminal Damage category have a significant negative impact on prices. Burglaries have no measurable impact on prices, even after allowing for the potential dependence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797297
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Economic Growth
CROIX, David de la - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014
Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961076
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Ecological Barriers and Convergence: a Note on Geometry in Spatial Growth Models
FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014
conditions that guarantee, in the long run, the convergence of the detrended capital across locations and those inducing spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779580
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Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology and Competition: Evidence from France
Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
productive. The formers' convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256474