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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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How fast are the tourism countries growing? : the cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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The link between regional temperature and regional income : econometric evidence with sub-national data

Greßer, Christina; Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2020

We study the effect of temperature on economic development on the sub-national level, employing cross-sectional data for up to 15,533 sub-national units from two distinct sources. In contrast to the existing cross-country literature on the temperature-income relationship, our setting allows us...

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The effects of the EU Cohesion Policy on regional economic growth : using structural equation modelling for impact assessment

Maucorps, Ambre; Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2020

This paper analyses the effects of the EU Cohesion Policy (CP) on the economic growth of 276 European NUTS-2 regions between 2008 and 2016. Using a structural equation model (SEM) consisting of both a measurement component (with two latent variables) and a structural component, we estimate the...

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On the water-energy-food nexus: is there multivariate convergence?

Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021

This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results reveal that there is evidence of sigma- absolute beta- and conditional beta-convergence … impact of each variable on the others in the analyzed countries. The speed of convergence is simulated to assess when the …

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On the economic effects of a reallocation of EU cohesion policy expenditures

Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2020

-run convergence and short-run economic performance. …

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Superstar cities and left-behind places : disruptive innovation, labor demand, and interregional inequality

Kemeny, Tom; Storper, Michael - 2020

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Effects of monetary policy shocks on UK regional activity : a constrained MFVAR approach

Mandalinci, Zeyyad - 2015

This paper examines the effects of monetary policy shocks on UK regional economic growth and dispersion in a novel Constrained Mixed Frequency Vector Autoregressive framework. Compared to a standard MFVAR, the model partially accounts for missing quarterly observations for regional growth by...

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Immigrants and firms' productivity : evidence from France

Mitaritonna, Cristina; Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni - 2014

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The two waves of service-sector growth

Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009

The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...

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