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The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …
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This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in … with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial error convergence model with groupwise heteroskedasticity is found … data provide much support for unconditional ß-convergence in Europe. The second is that the usual convergence conclusions …
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We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer [Romer, P. (1990). “Endogenous technological change”. Journal of Political Economy 98, 71–102]. In the first part, we present different versions of the benchmark linear model with imperfect...
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This paper presents a theoretical growth model that extends the Mankiw-Romer-Weil [MRW] model by accounting for technological interdependence among regional economies. Interdependence is assumed to work through spatial externalities caused by disembodied knowledge diffusion. The transition from...
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The recent growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) has led to a proliferation of scholarly efforts to analyse the various dimensions of this phenomenon. Two main streams of research have emerged in the literature. The first analyses the economic effects of FDI inflows in the economy of the...
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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