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Spatial dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK model
Boucekkine, Raouf; Camacho, Carmen; Fabbri, Giorgio - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2010
same (detrended) consumption over space and time, lead to convergence in the level of capital across locations in the long-run. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478960
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004383
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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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Regional Growth and Regional Decline
Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702080
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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476318
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The Costs of Urban Property Crime
Gibbons, Steve - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
This paper estimates the impact of recorded domestic property crime on property prices in the London area. Crimes in the Criminal Damage category have a significant negative impact on prices. Burglaries have no measurable impact on prices, even after allowing for the potential dependence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797297
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Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?
Lychagin, Sergey; Pinkse, Joris; Slade, Margaret E.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
Using US firm level panel data we simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three potential sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technological, and product market ("horizontal"). To do so, we construct new measures of geographic proximity based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646246
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The Two Faces of R&D and Human Capital: Evidence from Western European Regions
Vogel, Johanna - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
, the model allows for conditional convergence to a long-run level of TFP relative to the frontier.  We also develop an … convergence has taken place over our sample period and that geographic distance to the technology frontier matters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004195