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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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authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering global …
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convergence of GDP per worker observed across the European regions, in the absence of data on regional TFP. Second, the spatial … regional convergence in Europe. As for the first issue, our aim is to assess whether the convergence observed across European … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …
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productivity convergence observed across the European regions in the 1980s. The potential of an explanation of convergence based in … therefore on convergence) implied by the theory of the dual economy. We use the database Regio-Eu set up by CRENoS, with … of the whole process of convergence. Ignoring such components could lead to misleading interpretations of the relative …
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