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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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A Spatiotemporal Fixed Effects Estimation of U.S. State-Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Burnett, J. Wesley; Bergstrom, John C. - 2011

One of the major shortcommings of past environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) studies is that the spatiotemporal aspects within the data have largely been ignored. By ignoring the spatial aspect of pollution emissions past estimates of the EKC implicitly assume that a region’s emissions are...

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Determinants of Agricultural Cash Rents in Germany: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Farm-Level Data

Breustedt, Gunnar; Habermann, Hendrik - 2009

This article analyses determinants for 2001 farmland rental prices from 4376 farms in Germany. We derive our regression equation from a spatial reaction function to allow for spatial transmission of rental prices. Results from a general spatial model show that a € 1 per hectare higher rental...

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A Pair-wise Approach to Testing for Output and Growth Convergence

Pesaran, M Hashem - 2004

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also … support output convergence and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature might be spurious. However …

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Deindustrialisation and Structural Change During the Post-Communist Transition

Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Zalewska, Anna - 2001

The aim of this paper is to model the evolution of employment structure in post-communist economies in the broader context of deindustrialisation. The paper builds on the model of structural change developed by Rowthorn and Wells (1987). We show that the starting point of high industry sector...

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Getting Behind the East-West [German] Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence

Burda, Michael C.; Schmitd, Christoph M. - 1997

the labor force. Furthermore, we derive and estimate a measure of East-West wage convergence that accounts for both …

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic andRussia, economies that represent …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476944