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Convergence in Provincial-Level South African House Prices: Evidence from the Club Convergence and Clustering Procedure
Apergis, Nicholas; Simo-Kengne, Beatrice D.; Gupta, Rangan - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2013
convergence and clustering procedure of Phillips and Sul (2007). Using quarterly data covering the period of 1974Q1 to 2012Q4 … provinces do not form a homogeneous convergence club. In particular, the aggregate housing market supports the presence of three … convergence clubs with the tendency of provinces to converge or diverge varying across subsequent segments. Unlike the middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764582
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Convergence in U.S. house prices by state: evidence from the club convergence and clustering procedure
Apergis, Nicholas; Payne, James - In: Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 5 (2012) 2, pp. 103-111
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Accounting standards convergence dynamics: International evidence from club convergence and clustering
Apergis, Nicholas; Christou, Christina; Hassapis, Christis - In: Accounting Research Journal 27 (2014), pp. 226-248
Purpose –This paper aims to explore convergence of accounting standards across worldwide adopted measures to … a tendency to act so. Design/methodology/approach –The new panel convergence methodology, developed by Phillips and Sul … attempts to formally measure whether the accounting world exhibits a tendency for accounting standards convergence or whether …
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An Examination of Okun's Law : Evidence from Regional Areas in Greece
Apergis, Nicholas; Rezitis, Anthony N. - 2012
This paper estimates Okun's coefficient for certain regional areas in Greece over the period 1960-1997. Through the Hordic-Prescott filtering anf the band-pass filtering the empirical analysis shows that the coefficient do not exhibits substantial interregional differences, exept for the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217075
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The Nature of Conflict
Galor, Oded; Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252653
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002382
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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
Galor, Oded - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for growth, the neoclassical paradigm dismissed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021946
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021950
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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2011
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370951
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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Economics Department, Williams College - 2011
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a signi.cant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370952