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government, and including a combined sector of totals. The results indicate that none of the sectors exhibits ó-convergence, but … they all show strong evidence of â-convergence with a convergence club pattern that is apparent for the wholesale …
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growth and convergence from a time series perspective focusing on regional labor markets. The second paper uses microdata to … evaluate what is termed conditional sigma convergence. Finally, the third paper uses innovations, as proxied by patents, and … “Stochastic Convergence and Regional Disparities: An Application to Urban Wages in Colombia” develops a model for real wages in …
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This dissertation examines the effects of commodity market liberalization on the farmer's price. Chapter two of this dissertation presents a theoretical model of commodity market liberalization which aims to analyze the impact of market liberalization on the farmer's price. This monopsony-type...
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Spatial econometrics is a subfield of econometrics that deals with the treatment of spatialinteractions in regression models for cross sectional and panel data.Chapter 1: This is the first paper that highlights the role of spatial interactions, in thecontext of bankruptcy laws, in the...
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Theories of economic growth have long recognized that the majority of growth resultsfrom endogenous changes in technology that emerge from the profit motivateddevelopment of new knowledge. However, recent theorizing has suggested that thecreation of knowledge in and of itself does not directly...
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The author examines the impact of the Massachusetts’ health reform law of 2006,Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006: An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality,Accountable Health Care, which uses both individual and employer insurance-mandateson Entrepreneurship in the formation of new...
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Economic integration and mobility of capital have set the ground for a significant competition over resources. Tax competition for internationally mobile tax bases such as foreign direct investments has become an important matter of study. Nevertheless, literature has focused on a regional or...
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Using a data set of Wake County, North Carolina, property sales for the period 1992-2000, this study provides evidence as to the acceptability of spatial aggregation in hedonic property value models. Both statistical tests and tests based upon prediction errors are performed in order to identify...
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The findings of recent studies on adjustment processes suggest that regional labour markets in the EU and the US differ significantly. Low wage flexibility and limited labour mobility in European countries involve persistent unemployment differentials across regions. However, the spatial...
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The inclusion of spatial correlation of house price in hedonic pricing model may produce better marginal implicit price estimate(s) of the environmental variable(s) of interest. Most applications where a spatial econometric model is applied to the estimation of a hedonic property value model...
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