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Strategic Competition in Swedish Local Spending on Childcare, Schooling and Care for the Elderly

Edmark, Karin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

This study tests for strategic competition in public spending on childcare and primary education, and care for the elderly, using panel data on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree of decentralization in the organization of the public sector implies that Swedish data is highly...

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La mesure de la croissance pro-pauvres au Burkina Faso : espace de l'utilité ou des capacités ?

Lachaud, Jean-Pierre - In: Revue d’économie du développement 15 (2007) 1, pp. 5-44

and inequality. In this respect, the comparative analysis, mobilizing spatial econometrics, confirms two stylized facts …

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Measuring Pro-Poor Growth in Burkina Faso: Utility or Capabilities Space?

Lachaud, Jean-Pierre - In: Revue d’économie du développement 15 (2007) 5, pp. 5-46

relations between poverty, economic growth and inequality. In this respect, the comparative analysis, mobilizing spatial … econometrics, confirms two stylized facts. On the one hand, the provincial growth-elasticity of monetary or capabilities poverty is …

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Real estate market and the relevance of local features in a hedonic prices quantil-spatial analysis – the case of Belo Horizonte – Brazil

Furtado, BERNARDO - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The main motivation of this paper is to identify how relevant the localization of a specific estate is in its market value. Furthermore, it aims to understand better how economic aspects influence and are influenced by urban space. In order to do so, a myriad of concepts is drawn from a variety...

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The Localization of Entrepreneurship Capital - Evidence from Germany

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Clusters, Knowledge Spillovers, Spatial Econometrics ∗ Financial support ….C.: Center for Economic Studies Anselin L (1988) Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Models. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic … localized in space. The purpose of this pa-per is to investigate the localization hypothesis. We do this by using spatial …

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Estimating Regional Trade Agreement Effects on FDI in an Interdependent World

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2007

Recent research on trade and multinationals highlights a novel issue with multinational firms. In particular, their integration strategies are complex and the degree of vertical integration varies in a multilateral world with many possible locations of activity. Multinationals may choose some...

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Bayesian Model Averaging in the Context of Spatial Hedonic Pricing: An Application to Farmland Values

van Kooten, Gerrit Cornelis; Cotteleer, Geerte; Stobbe, … - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2007

Since 1973, British Columbia created an Agricultural Land Reserve to protect farmland from development. In this study, we employ GIS-based hedonic pricing models of farmland values to examine factors that affect farmland prices. We take spatial lag and error dependence into explicit account....

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SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS - APPLICATIONS TO INVESTIGATE DISTRIBUTION OF CO2 EMISSION IN EUROPE*

Albu, Lucian Liviu - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting 4 (2007) 1, pp. 45-56

order to estimate more accurately the future economic development. Among the special tools, the so-called spatial … econometrics begun to be used for studying, for example, the distribution of gas emissions in extended geographical zones, but also …

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A class of spatial econometric methods in the empirical analysis of clusters of firms in the space

Arbia, Giuseppe; Espa, Giuseppe; Quah, Danny - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2007

In this paper we aim at identifying stylized facts in order to suggest adequate models of spatial co–agglomeration of industries. We describe a class of spatial statistical methods to be used in the empirical analysis of spatial clusters. Compared to previous contributions using point pattern...

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Analysis of Economic Growth in Regions: Geographical and Institutional Aspect

Lugovoy, Oleg; Dashkeyev, Vladimir V.; Mazaev, Ilya; … - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2007

This study explores disparity in regional development in Russia and in Canada and role of geography in their development. In the first chapter analysis of the role of geographic, economic, and institutional factors in economic growth over 1996–2004 is presented. Additionally the issue of the...

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