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Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe
Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012
This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...
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Sectoral productivity convergence between European regions : does space matter?
Montresor, Elisa; Pecci, Francesco; Pontarollo, Nicola - 2012
The aim of our analysis is the evaluation of the total and sectoral convergence of labour productivity between 182 … adopt a β- and sígma-convergence approach along with a methodology based on Getis' spatial filters that allows decomposing … and low productivity, respectively 'core' and 'periphery'. Our results show significant sígma-convergence in aggregate …
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Spatio-temporal analysis of regional systems : a multiregional spatial vector autoregressive model for Spain
Ramajo Hernández, Julián; Márquez, Miguel A.; … - 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...
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Interregional spillovers and urban-rural disparity in U.S. employment growth
Saito, Hisamitsu; Gopinath, Munisamy; Wu, JunJie - 2010
A wide urban-rural disparity is observed in employment growth in the United States. For example, employment growth averaged 2.1 percent in urban counties during 1998-2007, compared with just 1 percent in rural counties. In this study, we examine the sources of U.S. employment growth using the...
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Trends in the relation between regional convergence and economic growth in EU
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2016
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between regional convergence inside of countries in EU and … the correlation between the convergence process and economic growth we focused, as it is usually used in specialised … literature to analyse the real convergence, on the dynamics of GDP per capita expressed in case of EU by PPS (Purchasing Power …
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Regional income convergence in Europe : a Bayesian model averaging perspective : 52th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International August 21-25, 2012, Bratis...
Gmeinder, Michael; Piribauer, Philipp; Schoiswohl, Florian - 2012
The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …
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The well-being of Russian cities : does location matter?
Ivanova, Vera - 2015 - Preliminary draft, to be completed
rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … (which is a proxy for city size) has positive impact on the speed of convergence. Using geographical location characteristics …
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Spatial impact of transportation infrastructure : a spatial econometric CGE approach
Chen, Zhenhua - 2013
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Income convergence, migration and geography : distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2010
Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …
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Accumulation of education and regional income growth : limited human capital effects in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2011 - Date: February 1, 2011
Accumulation of education and geographic concentration of educated people in cities are expected to generate urban income growth. New economic geography predicts income divergence across regions. We investigate the dynamic process of accumulating tertiary education and regional income growth in...
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