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Space and growth
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …
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Convergence in Spanish provinces
Montañés, Antonio; Olmos, Lorena; Reyes García, Marcelo - 2013 - Work in progress
This paper analyses to what extent the Spanish provinces have shown a convergence process since 1980 to nowadays. The … exitence of a unique convergence process between them. Rather, we can observe the existence of differentiated clubs up to 2007 …
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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757366
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An integrated approach to the Paris climate Agreement : the role of regions and cities
Matsumoto, Tadashi; Allain-Dupré, Dorothée; Crook, … - 2019
Following the historic 2015 Paris Agreement aiming to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, 165 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, representing 192 countries, have been submitted. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) detail each...
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The language effect in international trade : a meta-analysis
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - 2011
Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412376
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Going up and down : rethinking the empirics of growth in the developing and newly industrialized world
Lamperti, Francesco; Mattei, Clara Elisabetta - 2016 - This version: January 2016
growth phases. Results show that expansionary regimes are associated with convergence and positive correlation between growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412222
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Quantifying the impact of current crisis on the convergence in EU and post-crisis scenarios
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2012
Certainly the current crisis is affecting seriously the convergence process in EU. Starting from the spatial … rate has a fundamental role. In the general process of economic development and in the context of convergence in EU for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515567
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Technology convergence and digital divides : a country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801809
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Pitfalls In Estimating ß-Convergence By Means Of Panel Data: An Empirical Test
Bianchi, Carluccio; Calidoni, Federica; Menegatti, Mario - 2009
!convergence panel regressions may produce biased evidence, due to their inability to distinguish between actual catching-up across …. The results confirm the conjecture that traditional evidence about - convergence may be misleading; they also show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343912
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Divergence, convergence, and the history-augmented Solow model
Kufenko, Vadim; Prettner, Klaus; Geloso, Vincent - 2017
We test the history-augmented Solow model with respect to its predictions on the patterns of divergence and convergence …
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