Similar Search Results

Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757366

How fast are the tourism countries growing? : the cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592920

Is temperature adversely related to economic growth? : evidence on the short-run and the long-run links from sub-national data

Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2021

We investigate the effect of rising temperatures on economic development, using sub-national data for approximately 1,500 sub-national regions in 81 countries from the 1950s to the 2010s. Accounting for region- and time-fixed factors by means of a two-way fixed effects panel approach, we find no...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660336

European Union cohesion project characteristics and regional economic growth

Darvas, Zsolt M.; Mazza, Jan; Midões, Catarina - 2021

Due to problems with existing methodologies that aim to identify the causal impact of European Union cohesion policy on economic growth, we adopted a novel methodology. We first estimated 'unexplained economic growth' by controlling for the influence of various region-specific factors, and then...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433816

On the water-energy-food nexus: is there multivariate convergence?

Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021

This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results reveal that there is evidence of sigma- absolute beta- and conditional beta-convergence … impact of each variable on the others in the analyzed countries. The speed of convergence is simulated to assess when the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487810

Do higher public debt levels reduce economic growth?

Heimberger, Philipp - 2021

While the effect of higher public debt levels on economic growth has received much attention, the literature partly points to contradictory results. This paper applies meta-regression methods to 826 estimates from 48 primary studies. The unweighted mean of the reported results suggests: a 10...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665220

Impact of climate change on economic growth : a case study of India

Sandhani, Medhavi; Pattanayak, Anubhab; Kumar, K. S. Kavi - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471109

Market access and firm performance: Evidence based on GIS analysis of road network and manufacturing-plant-level data from India

Sharma, Somnath; Kant, Shashi; Mishra, Ranjeeta; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether better access to markets through an improved road network plays a role in improving the profitability of firms in India. We construct a district-level market access index using Indian road network shapefiles, district boundaries, and nightlight raster images and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014303065

Effects of government investment shocks on private investment and income in India

Mallick, Jagannath - 2016

This paper evaluates the effect of shocks in government investment on private investment and national income, focusing on "crowding-in" or "crowding-out" effect in India. Recent studies do not deal with this issue by taking account of the heterogeneous effect of public investment as regards to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422039

An Empirical Evidence and Proposal on the Spillover Effects of Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure in India

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Siregar, Tifani; Agarwal, Deepanshu; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of information and communication technology (ICT) not only for the economy but also for human well-being. However, the investment gap in ICT infrastructure has been growing and is expected to reach more than $30 billion by 2040. We argue that one...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077691