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Logistics and Exports
Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Drawing on a new and comprehensive measure of logistics quality, our gravity model suggests logistics in the exporting and partner-country can have an important impact on bilateral exports.  A one standard deviation improvement in the exporter's logistics quality, which for example would...
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Regional Convergence and Catch-up in India between 1960 and 1992
Trivedi, Kamakshya - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
This paper examines the evidence for regional convergence or catch-up in levels and growth rates of per capita income …, Re-Weighted Least Squares, and Least Trimmed Squares - establish that unconditional convergence in growth rates does not … obtain, but that there is clear and robust evidence of conditional convergence. This suggests that important differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605213
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The determinants of Italy's regional imbalances over the long run: exploring the contributions of human and social capital
Felice, Emanuele - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
inequality in Italy.  More particularly, convergence in value added per capita across Italy's regions is tested (through both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004271
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Employment Concentration across US Counties
Fafchamps, Marcel; Desmet, Klaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003
becoming more or less concentrated. The existing literature has found deconcentration (convergence) of employment across urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090665
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Technological spillovers and industrial growth in Chinese regions
Wang, Lili; Meijers, Huub; Szirmai, Eddy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
This paper focuses on the role of interregional technology spillovers in the process of industrial growth in Chinese regions in the period 1990-2005. Inflows of FDI increased rapidly from 1990 till 1998, slowing down thereafter. Domestic R&D investment accelerated after 1998. Regional industrial...
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Summarizing large spatial datasets: Spatial principal components and spatial canonical correlation
Bhupathiraju, Samyukta; Verspagen, Bart; Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
We propose a method for spatial principal components analysis that has two important advantages over the method that Wartenberg (1985) proposed. The first advantage is that, contrary to Wartenberg's method, our method has a clear and exact interpretation: it produces a summary measure...
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Public Capital and Income Distribution: a Marriage of Hicks & Newman-Read
Getachew, Yoseph - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper examines how publicly provided inputs could affect income distribution. By applying the Newman-Read production function- a generalized Cobb-Douglas production function- to Hicks's idea of the determinant of factor share, such usually complex dynamics remain analytically tractable. The...
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Public Capital, Income Distribution and Growth
Getachew, Yoseph - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Public capital investment plays an important role in long run growth through enhancing productivity and complementing the accumulation of private inputs. Under appropriate conditions, public capital could also have important implications for income distribution dynamics. When the credit market...
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Public investment and regional politics: The case of Turkey
Muysken J.; de, Crombrugghe D.P.I.; Celbis M.G. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
The determinants of the regional allocation of transportation and communication investments are analysed for the twenty-six statistical regions of Turkey for the years 1999 through 2011. A unique regional GVA series covering this period is constructed for this purpose. We specifically account...
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How big is the impact of infrastructure on trade? Evidence from meta-analysis
Celbis, Mehmet Güney; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure...
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