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Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe

Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...

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Sectoral productivity convergence between European regions : does space matter?

Montresor, Elisa; Pecci, Francesco; Pontarollo, Nicola - 2012

The aim of our analysis is the evaluation of the total and sectoral convergence of labour productivity between 182 … adopt a β- and sígma-convergence approach along with a methodology based on Getis' spatial filters that allows decomposing … and low productivity, respectively 'core' and 'periphery'. Our results show significant sígma-convergence in aggregate …

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Spatio-temporal analysis of regional systems : a multiregional spatial vector autoregressive model for Spain

Ramajo Hernández, Julián; Márquez, Miguel A.; … - 2013

This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...

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The well-being of Russian cities : does location matter?

Ivanova, Vera - 2015 - Preliminary draft, to be completed

rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … (which is a proxy for city size) has positive impact on the speed of convergence. Using geographical location characteristics …

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Spatial impact of transportation infrastructure : a spatial econometric CGE approach

Chen, Zhenhua - 2013

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Dependence of spatial effects on the level of regional aggregation, weights matrix, and estimation method

Bukina, Tatiana V.; Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; … - 2015

Researchers have repeatedly noted that the results in spatial-econometric studies depend significantly on the level of regional aggregation (Jacobs-Crisioni et al., 2014; Kang et al., 2014, Baltagi, Li, 2014). Currently, hierarchical models can contribute a lot to the studies of spatial effects...

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A new regional balance : challenges and opportunities for intermediate city regions in Europe : 54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P. - 2014 - Preliminary version

due to declining economic activity. The trend toward regional economic convergence has been interrupted, not only in a …

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Sugar cane burning and human health : an analysis using spatial difference in difference

Chagas, André Luis Squarize; Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de; … - 2013

The production of ethanol and sugar from sugar cane has sharply increased for the last 20 years. If there are overall incentives to substitute the consumption of fossil fuels by biofuels, the increase of production and the expansion of new cultivated areas of sugar cane have eventually an impact...

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A spatial Diff-in-Diff analysis of the impact of sugarcane producion on respiratory diseases

Chagas, André Luis Squarize; Azzoni, Carlos Roberto; … - 2015

The production of ethanol and sugar from sugarcane has sharply increased in Brazil in the last 20 years, in a process of substitution of biofuel for fossil fuels. The increase in the production and the expansion of the cultivated area might have impacts on human health and employment, especially...

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The spatial convergence of knowledge in Portugal

Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés; Caleiro, António - 2015

paper we carry out as the main objective to analyse the spatial convergence of knowledge through the study of the evolution … convergence spatial) is studied from the viewpoint of the growth of per capita GDP. However, since human capital is a key factor … convergence of knowledge will be reflected in a spatial convergence in terms of economic growth, or even of unemployment rates …

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