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Gallo, Julie Le; Dall'erba, Sandy - EconWPA - 2003

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The European Regional Convergence Process, 1980-1995: Do Spatial Regimes and Spatial Dependence Matter?

Baumont, Catherine; Ertur, Cem; Gallo, Julie Le - EconWPA - 2002

We show in this paper that spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity matter in the estimation of the b-convergence process among 138 European regions over the 1980-1995 period. Using spatial econometrics tools, we detect both spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity in the form of...

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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The …, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes. Higher homicide rates on the Mexican side seem to result from deficient … opportunistic clustering of criminal activity in Mexican cities, while no clustering is found on the American side. Crime also …

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Commons, anti-commons, corruption and 'maffia' behavior

Canavese, Alfredo - EconWPA - 2004

The particular point that will be stressed in this paper is that benefits derived from corrupt behaviour depend on institutions devised to discourage it. The analytical framework used to explore the symmetric tragedies of the commons and the anticommons outlined by James Buchaman and Yong J....

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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003

This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...

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Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are more likely than other owners to invest in productivity...

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Hedonic Prices Indexes for New Passenger Cars in Portugal (1997- 2001)

Reis, Hugo J.; Silva, J.M.C. Santos - EconWPA - 2003

This paper evaluates the effects of quality change on the price index for new passenger cars in Portugal for the years 1997-2001. Hedonic regression models are studied, giving particular emphasis to the relation between the form of the price index and the specification of the hedonic equation...

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Economic Growth and the Financial Economics of Capital Accumulation under Shifting Technological Change

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S; Newcomb, Richard T. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper develops a simple and practical framework for characterizing (long-run) economic growth and fluid capital accumulation under shifting technological change. The framework specifies a technological change that depends on exogenous and endogenous factors as well as the interaction...

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Non-Junk Junk Money: Technical Efficiency and Productivity across Junk and Scrap Dealerships

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S. - EconWPA - 2004

Some forms of environmentalism has generated many positive responses from concerned communities. Sophisticated theories addressing various aspects of environmental policy abound. At the practical level private economic agents following their self-interests confront the challenge of cleaning up...

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Spatial Clustering, Inequality and Income Convergence

Janikas, Mark V.; Rey, Sergio J. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the relationship between spatial clustering and inequality at the county scale with overall state per capita income in the U.S. over the period 1969-2000. For each of the 48 coterminous states we examine measures of inequality and spatial clustering and explore how a state's...

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