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Taking the Bite Out of Fiscal Competition

Justman, Moshe; Thisse, Jacques-François; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Regions can benefit by offering infrastructure services that are differentiated by quality, thus segmenting the market for industrial location. Regions that compete on infrastructure quality have an incentive to increase the degree of differentiation between them. This places an upper bound on...

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Politics and investment: examining the territorial allocation of public investment in Greece

Psycharis, Yannis; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper discusses how electoral politics shapes the regional allocation of public investment expenditures per capita in Greece. Using regional public investment data for 10 political periods (1975-2009), combined with electoral data by constituency, a model is proposed which captures the...

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The Impact of Urban Enterprise Zones on Establishments' Location Decisions: Evidence from French ZFUs

Mayer, Thierry; Mayneris, Florian; Py, Loriane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In this paper, we study the impact of a French enterprise zones program---the ``Zones Franches Urbaines'' (ZFUs) policy … eligibility criteria of the policy as an exogenous source of variation to estimate the impact of the treatment. Our results show … that the French ZFU policy has a positive and sizable impact on location choices. However, we also find that the policy …

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Electoral politics and regional development: assessing the geographical allocation of public investment in Turkey

Luca, Davide; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

contrast to official regional development policy principles, the Turkish state tended to favour areas with a higher level of … literature, which has overly emphasised the role of pork-barrel in public policy-making. At the same time, they underline the …

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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

This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level in Greece. Using a new database of public expenditure per region for the period 1978-2007, it proposes a model which captures not just the impact of public investment in Greek...

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Infrastructure and regional growth in the European Union

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what...

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Trade and regional inequality

Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005. In particular, it tests a) whether increases in trade lead to rising inequalities, b) whether these inequalities recede in time, and c) whether increases in...

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Will East Germany Become a New Mezzogiorno?

Boltho, Andrea; Carlin, Wendy; Scaramozzino, Pasquale - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Despite massive regional policy efforts, GDP per capita in Southern Italy has only briefly converged on Northern … Italian levels (during the 1960s). Failure since then is associated with a policy switch from investment towards income …

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Public Policies, Regional Inequalities and Growth

Martin, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

. Contrary to transfers and traditional regional policies, it is shown that a public policy that reduces the cost of innovation …

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Bringing Home the Bacon: An empirical analysis of the extent and effects of pork-barreling in Australian politics

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

Which electorates receive targeted funding, and does targeted funding swing votes? To answer these questions, I analyze four discretionary programs funded by the Australian federal government during the 2001-2004 election cycle. Controlling for relevant demographic characteristics of the...

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