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Regional growth and national development: transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the regional Kuznets curve in the East and the West
Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126360
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Ports and Regional Development: A European Perspective
Ferrari, Claudio; Merk, Olaf; Bottasso, Anna; Conti, … - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2012
This paper studies the impact of port activity on regional employment, analysing approximately 560 western European regions, including the largest OECD European ports (116 ports), from 2000-06. The empirical analysis is based on a set of employment equations using the Blundell and Bond (1998)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277067
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Ports and regional development : a European perspective
Ferrari, Claudio; Merk, Olaf; Bottasso, Anna; Conti, … - 2012
This paper studies the impact of port activity on regional employment, analysing approximately 560 western European regions, including the largest OECD European ports (116 ports), from 2000-06. The empirical analysis is based on a set of employment equations using the Blundell and Bond (1998)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688656
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Spatio-temporal Analysis of Regional Systems: A Multiregional Spatial Vector Autoregressive Model for Spain
RAMAJO, JULIAN; MARQUEZ, MIGUEL A.; HEWINGS, GEOFFREY J.D. - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740435
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Theory and empirics of horizontal and spatial integration of local communal services
Czako, Katalin; Poreisz, Veronika - European Regional Science Association - 2013
There are three parts of our paper. Firstly, it gives an overview about the goals and factors which affect the integration of local communal services. Horizontal integration means joining the various individual service providers, such as water supply and sewage, communal waste, district heating,...
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An integrated approach to the Paris climate Agreement : the role of regions and cities
Matsumoto, Tadashi; Allain-Dupré, Dorothée; Crook, … - 2019
Following the historic 2015 Paris Agreement aiming to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, 165 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, representing 192 countries, have been submitted. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) detail each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230604
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Interregional Inequality and Federal Expenditures and Transfers in Russia
Torbenko, Alexander - European Regional Science Association - 2014
The paper considers the influence of federal government expenditures and transfers on interregional convergence in … period in Russian regions there existed un- conditional beta-convergence, poor regions grew faster than rich ones. This …. Comparing our results to the results of previous research the process of interregional convergence in Russia can be seen. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075963
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Growth Trends and Characteristics of OECD Rural Regions
Garcilazo, Enrique - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2013
This paper benchmarks the performance of OECD rural regions with other types of OECD regions over the period 1995-2010. OECD regions are classified into three types according to the OECD regional typology and into four types according to the extended OECD typology. The latter classifies rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274595
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Environmental policy and the economic downturn
Bowen, Alex; Stern, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper considers how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. It first explores the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008-09 for environmental policies, focusing in particular on the example of action against climate change. The arguments for and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744909
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The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of the Seine Axis (Le Havre, Rouen, Paris, Caen), France
Merk, Olaf; Ducruet, César; Dubarle, Patrick; … - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2011
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the ports of the Seine Axis (Le Havre, Rouen, Caen and Paris), as well as an analysis of the impact of the ports on their territory and an assessment of policies and governance in this field. It examines declining port performance in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291567