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Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...

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Transport costs intermediate goods and localized growth

Walz, Uwe - 1995

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An equilibrium model of 'global imbalances' and low interest rates

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Farhi, Emmanuel; Gourinchas, … - 2006

Three of the most important recent facts in global macroeconomics -- the sustained rise in the US current account deficit, the stubborn decline in long run real rates, and the rise in the share of US assets in global portfolio -- appear as anomalies from the perspective of conventional wisdom...

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Does accounting for spatial effects help forecasting the growth of Chinese provinces?

Girardin, Eric; Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2009

In this paper, we make multi-step forecasts of the annual growth rates of the real GRP for each of the 31 Chinese provinces simultaneously. Beside the usual panel data models, we use panel models that explicitly account for spatial dependence between the GRP growth rates. In addition, the...

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Can the economic impact of political decentralisation be measured?

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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented solow model

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …