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Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel C. - 2013 - Last Revision: April 2013

We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity …. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are … essentially uncorrelated with income levels. -- Economic Growth ; Conditional Convergence ; Heterogeneity ; U.S. County Level Data …

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Federal, state, and local governments : evaluating their separate roles in US growth

Higgins, Matthew J. (contributor); … - 2008

We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...

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Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Imbalances

Baldacci, Emanuele; Gupta, Sanjeev; Mulas-Granados, Carlos - Banca d'Italia - 2014

The volume collects the essays presented at the 15th Workshop on Public Finance organised by Banca d'Italia in Perugia from 4 to 6 April 2013. The workshop focused on the link between fiscal policy and macroeconomic imbalances and comprised four sessions. The first session concentrated on the...

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