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Growth and Technological Leadership in US Industries: A Spatial Econometric Analysis at the State Level, 1963-1997

Pede, Valerien O.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Groot, … - 2007

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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Spatial Dependence of Regional Unemployment in the European Union

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

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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Spatial Econometric Approaches to Estimating Hedonic Property Value Models

Wang, Li; Ready, Richard C. - 2005

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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Modeling Non-Linear Spatial Dynamics: A Family of Spatial STAR Models and an Application to U.S. Economic Growth

Pede, Valerien O.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Holt, Matthew T. - 2008

proposed modeling framework is then used to identify convergence clubs in the context of U.S. county-level economic growth over …

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Essays in economic geography: Convergence, inequalities and innovations in the knowledge economy

Galvis, Luis A. - 2010

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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The Psychology of Entrepreneurship and the Technological Frontier – A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Regional Entrepreneurship in the United States

Sutter, Ryan - 2010

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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Mulling Over Massachusetts: Health Insurance Mandates And Entrepreneurs

Jackson, Scott - 2008

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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Knowledge Diffusion Processes: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Klarl, Torben Alexander - 2009

In the introductory chapter it has been laid out, that knowledge as an input factor of production exhibits a strong influence on economic development. The increasing knowledge intensity in the globalised economy needs to focus on the determinants of the "knowledge based society". Two major...

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Spatial Aggregation and Prediction in the Hedonic Model

Fulcher, Charles Michael - 2003

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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Spatial Approaches to Panel Data in Agricultural Economics: A Climate Change Application

Baylis, Kathy; Paulson, Nicholas D.; Piras, Gianfranco - 2011

Panel data are used in almost all subfields of the agricultural economics profession. Furthermore, many research areas have an important spatial dimension. This article discusses some of the recent contributions made in the evolving theoretical and empirical literature on spatialeconometric...

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