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This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational (i.e. regional) growth. We construct an extensive panel dataset covering 1,350 regions in 86 countries worldwide between 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international...
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(industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised … as follows. In the pre-2008 crisis period, no integration/convergence of any kind is found. By contrast, in the post … Telecommunication, both in a turn-around phase, and Gas & Oil and Technology, for which there is no panel convergence. Club convergence …
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projections can be resolved by accounting for growth convergence in a climate-econometric approach that is consistent with the …-level economic growth, our convergence-consistent projections reveal that under an unmitigated warming scenario, global climate …
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regions, we find evidence for conditional convergence with speed around two percent. The convergence process between countries … is dominated by the catching up process of regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), whereas convergence within …
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The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers across the pre-existing states, with a single currency. Market integration was the economic outcome of this process. At the same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large...
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distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal distribution. Thus, application of the threshold model to a real world case …
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This paper analyzes the inequalities and convergence across countries using data on the top 100 players in chess and … income groups. The results indicate the presence of conditional convergence across countries in their representations in the …
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We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
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This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also … to output series in the Penn World Tables over 1950-2000, as well as to Maddions̕ historical series over 1870 …
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The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more "sophisticated" products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting...
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