Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...

This study analyses the critical role of core infrastructure in the regional development of Pakistan. The Dynamic Fixed-Effect Spatial Durbin Model has been used for the provincial data during 1991 to 2020. The spatial dependence parameter is positive and statistically highly significant,...

We develop a unified stochastic frontier model which controls for the local spatial correlation and the global factor dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to examine the diffusion impacts of the capital...

This paper employs k-means clustering, a multidimensional pattern recognition method, to categorize countries using information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k-medians clusters and arbitrary groups formed using...

We use data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures to study the characteristics and geography of investments in robots across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per employee) is much more strongly related to establishment...

Im Auftrag des Ministeriums für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Tourismus und Arbeit (MV) führt die Studie „Struktur-, Regional- und Potenzialanalyse des Handwerks in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Handwerk 2030“ eine umfassende Bestandsanalyse des Handwerks im Bundesland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...