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SPILLOVER DIFFUSION AND REGIONAL CONVERGENCE: A GRAVITY APPROACH
Giovanni, Guastella; Francesco, Timpano - In: Regional Science Inquiry 2 (2010) 2, pp. 71-82
convergence is still open. Much, of course, depends on the spatial extension of spillovers. The aim of this work is to study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658724
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SPILLOVER DIFFUSION AND REGIONAL CONVERGENCE: A GRAVITY APPROACH
Giovanni, Guastella; Francesco, Timpano - In: Regional Science Inquiry II (2010) 2, pp. 71-82
convergence is still open. Much, of course, depends on the spatial extension of spillovers. The aim of this work is to study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659281
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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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Optimal public investment in resource-rich low-income countries
Algozhina, Aliya - 2020
Recent studies have found that resource-rich low-income countries are better off investing their resource revenues domestically rather than saving them abroad in a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). This paper finds an optimal rule-based policy of accumulating public capital and its associated public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533530
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THE ROLE OF INNOVATION IN COMPETITIVENESS AND CONVERGENCE PROCESS: A BENCHMARKING STUDY FOR EUROPEAN REGIONS
Korres, George M.; Kokkinou, Aikaterini - In: Regional Science Inquiry 3 (2011) 2, pp. 123-133
enhancement and convergence of growth and productivity are a major topic in the economic and social policy agenda of E.U. members … deficits and public debt, but also to national disparities and convergence attainment. This paper aims to review the main … topics related to innovation activities, as well as competitiveness and economic convergence attainment. It also attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658753
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THE ROLE OF INNOVATION IN COMPETITIVENESS AND CONVERGENCE PROCESS: A BENCHMARKING STUDY FOR EUROPEAN REGIONS
Korres, George M.; Kokkinou, Aikaterini - In: Regional Science Inquiry III (2011) 2, pp. 123-133
enhancement and convergence of growth and productivity are a major topic in the economic and social policy agenda of E.U. members … deficits and public debt, but also to national disparities and convergence attainment. This paper aims to review the main … topics related to innovation activities, as well as competitiveness and economic convergence attainment. It also attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659288
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Unveiling drivers of deforestation : evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Kuschnig, Nikolas; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Krisztin, Tamás - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133853
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The role of contagion in the transmission of financial stress
Herculano, Miguel C. - 2018
I examine the relevance of contagion in explaining financial distress in the US banking system by identifying the component of bank level probabilities that is due to contagion. Identification is achieved after controlling for macrofinancial and bank specific shocks that have similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978772
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Do mining activities foster regional development? : evidence from Latin America in a spatial econometric framework
Luckeneder, Sebastian; Giljum, Stefan; Krisztin, Tamás - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123109
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A race to the bottom in labour standards? : an empirical investigation
Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011 - This Draft: November 2011
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732552