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Public investment and regional growth and convergence: Evidence from Greece

Psycharis, Yannis; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

of externalities from neighbouring regions. The results point to a positive long-run impact of public investment per … the highest impact. In general, public investment externalities seem to be more relevant for regional growth than direct …

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Export Diversification: What’s behind the Hump?

Cadot, Olivier; Carrère, Céline; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large … “intensive” and “extensive” margins (diversification of export values among active product lines and by addition of new product … lines respectively) using various export concentration indices and the number of active export lines. We also look at new …

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Rethinking Trade Preferences: How Africa Can Diversify its Exports

Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Act shows that, in the right conditions, Sub-Saharan African countries have had large manufacturing export supply response …

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Exposure to External Country Specific Shocks and Income Volatility

Jansen, Marion; Lennon, Carolina; Piermartini, Roberta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

correlated is more important in explaining exporters’ GDP volatility than the volatility of demand in individual export market …

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Trade Integration with Europe, Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Egypt

Dessus, Sébastien; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

European Union encourage the transition from a rentier economy to one of export-led growth? This paper uses a dynamic …

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Country Characteristics and the Choice of the Exchange Rate Regime: Are Mini-skirts Followed by Maxis?

Honkapohja, Seppo; Pikkarainen, Pentti - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

We use a sample of 140 countries to study empirically how a country's characteristics are associated with its choice of an exchange rate regime. When countries are classified according to their current exchange rate arrangements, we observe that small countries with low diversification of...

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Road User Charges in Britain

Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

At present the Department of Transport allocates road use costs according to concepts of fair attribution, and road user charges for commercial vehicles are intended to cover these costs. The paper calculates the efficient road user charge - the marginal social cost of highway use - and compares...

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Indeterminacy in a Finance Constrained Unionized Economy

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

-constrained monetary economy with heterogenous agents and increasing returns to scale due to labour and capital productive externalities … (arbitrarily) small degree of (total) externalities provided that the share of labour externalities exceed a lower bound, which …

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Optimal Choice of Characteristics for a Non-Excludable Good

Brocas, Isabelle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

I consider a model where a principal decides whether to produce one unit of an indivisible good (e.g. a private school) and which characteristics it will contain (emphasis on language or science). Agents (parents) are differentiated along two substitutable dimensions: a vertical parameter that...

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The Effect of Monetary Unification on Public Debt and its Real Return

Beetsma, Roel; Vermeylen, Koen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We explore the implications of monetary unification for real interest rates and (relative) public debt levels. The adoption of a common monetary policy renders the risk-return characteristics of the participating countries more similar, so that the substitutability of their public debt increases...

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