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The European countries : the role of services : special session SS33, Services and the Territory: Spatial Aspects and Problems of Service Activities

Cuadrado Roura, Juan R.; Maroto Sánchez, Andrés - 2010

The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over recent decades. The innovative focus of this paper concerns the role of the service sector in this relationship at a regional level. Services play a core role in advanced economies,...

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Spatial impact of transportation infrastructure : a spatial econometric CGE approach

Chen, Zhenhua - 2013

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Regional airport expansion : expansions of regional airports and their effect on the local economy

Breidenbach, Philipp - 2015

This paper exploits the deregulation of the European aviation market as a quasi-natural experiment to examine if the expansion of regional airports in Germany caused positive spillover effects on the surrounding economy. Such spillovers might justify the heavy subsidies which are transferred to...

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Regional convergence and economic development in the EU : the relation between national growth and regional disparities within the old and the new member states

Kramar, Hans - 2015

While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU … towards economic convergence on a national scale between 2000 and 2011, mainly caused by the rapid growth of the most lagging … countries. On a regional scale, however, the process of convergence was much slower and almost came to an end after the …

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Economic convergence : a regional and subregional approach

De Souza Rech, Gislaine Cristina; Pérez Montiel, Manuel; … - 2011

Economic convergence: a regional and subregional view Manuel Pérez Montiel Gislaine Cristina de Souza Rech Judite … Sanson de Bem The study of economic convergence among nations is based on the initial work of Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991 …), a topic of spatial econometric analysis Recently, research on economic convergence have been directed towards smaller …

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Income convergence : an analysis for the Brazilian States between 1994 - 2010

Gomes, Alexandre; Gazonato, Mariana; Reis, Raphael - 2014

investigates the hypothesis of absolute and conditional convergence of income among the Brazilian states from 1994 to 2010. The … the second step we test the convergence hypothesis to corroborate the existence of absolute and conditional convergence … among Brazilian regions. The speed of convergence is estimated by neoclassical model. The model of absolute convergence …

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Convergence in Spanish provinces

Montañés, Antonio; Olmos, Lorena; Reyes García, Marcelo - 2013 - Work in progress

This paper analyses to what extent the Spanish provinces have shown a convergence process since 1980 to nowadays. The … exitence of a unique convergence process between them. Rather, we can observe the existence of differentiated clubs up to 2007 …

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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

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A multiregional endogenous growth model with forward looking agents

Bröcker, Johannes - 2011 - Under construction

The paper presents a multiregional endogenous growth model designed for calibration with real world data and for numerical policy evaluation. It integrates four strands of research: (1) the Ramsey model of consumer behaviour, (2) Tobin's q-theory of investment, (3) Romer's theory of endogenous...

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Airport size and urban growth

Sheard, Nicholas - 2015

This paper estimates the effects of airports on economic growth in US metropolitan areas. The estimation uses a novel technique to identify the effects of changes in local airport sizes from overall changes in the air travel network. Airport size is found to have a positive effect on local...

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