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Railways and the Local Economy : Evidence from Qingzang Railway

Wang, Yang - 2013

This paper empirically examines the causal effect of railway infrastructure on local economic development using the construction of Qingzang railway as a natural experiment. We apply the difference-in-difference method and find that the Qingzang railway significantly stimulated the economy of...

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EU cohesion policy on the ground : analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data

Bachtrögler, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022

We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...

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EU cohesion policy on the ground : analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data

Bachtrögler, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022

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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....

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Economic growth and convergence during the transition to production using automation capital

Dujava, Daniel; Lábaj, Martin - 2019

robots replace low-skilled labour. We showthat this has potential non-linear effects on?-convergence and that the model is …

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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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...

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Demographic and Per Capita Income Dynamics: A Convergence Study on Demographics, Human Capital, and Per Capita Income for the US States

Persson, Joakim - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 1999

rates rather similar to the convergence rate for per capita income. The main part of the paper takes age distribution … variables as exogenous in conditional convergence regressions. Using panel data, the estimated partial relation between age and …

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African development : beyond income convergence

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates … convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus …

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Going up and down : rethinking the empirics of growth in the developing and newly industrialized world

Lamperti, Francesco; Mattei, Clara Elisabetta - 2016 - This version: January 2016

growth phases. Results show that expansionary regimes are associated with convergence and positive correlation between growth …

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Economic growth and convergence during the transition to production using automation capital

Dujava, Daniel; Lábaj, Martin - 2019

industrial robots replace low-skilled labour. We show that this has potential non-linear effects on σ-convergence and that the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125628