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The convergence theories and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294946

The convergence theories and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another approach

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294954

Application of Keynesian and convergence theories in Portugal. An alternative approach

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the sectoral productivity at regional level. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277273

Predicting the Geography of House Prices

Fingleton, Bernard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Prediction is difficult. In this paper we use panel data methods to make reasonably accurate short term ex-post predictions of house prices across 353 local authority areas in England. The issue of prediction over the longer term is also addressed, and a simple method that makes use of the...

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Tax Interactions among Belgian Municipalities: Does Language Matter?

Gérard, Marcel; Jayet, Hubert; Paty, Sonia - CESifo - 2009

This paper tests the existence of strategic interactions among municipalities using a panel of Belgian local tax rates from 1985 to 2004. A special emphasis is put on the role of the language spoken in the various municipalities. Our results first confirm previous findings for Belgium suggesting...

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GMM estimation of Spatial Panels with Fixed Effects

Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper we consider the estimation of a panel data regression model with spatial autoregressive disturbances, fixed effects and unknown heteroskedasticity. Following the work by Kelejian and Prucha (1999), Lee and Liu (2006a) and others, we adopt the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and...

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What said the economic theory about Portugal

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the sectoral productivity at regional level. Presenting some empirical … evidence of absolute convergence of productivity for each of the economic sectors in each of the regions of mainland Portugal …

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Productivity Differences in OECD Countries

Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - CESifo - 2000

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests … data. Third, when the null hypothesis of non convergence is rejected, a second test determines the number of converging … countries. Based on a sample of thirteen OECD countries our results show evidence of convergence in three out of six sectors …

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How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data

Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - CESifo - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...

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Internal migration and growth in Italy

Etzo, Ivan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The analysis focuses on the impact of interregional migration flows on regional growth rates during the period 1983-2002. A first important result is that migration did affect regional growth rates in Italy. Moreover, the results from the analysis of the two sub-periods, 1983-1992 and 1993-2002,...

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