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Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999

In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as well as panel estimation methods. Although there have been some winners in this process, the main finding is that convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have...

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The importance of EU cohesion policy for economic growth and convergence

Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2024

This chapter discusses factors that contributed to different economic dynamics across European regions and the prevailing disparities. The impact of EU Cohesion Policy in reducing disparities is studied based on the empirical evidence on the effects of EU regional policy. With more than thirty...

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The distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU

Lang, Valentin - 2024

This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes existing income inequalities in the EU and distinguishes between their interregional and intraregional dimensions. A key result is that inequalities within European regions make...

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Effects of R&D subsidies on regional economic dynamics : evidence from Chinese provinces

Eberle, Jonathan; Boeing, Philipp - 2019

We investigate the impact of research and development (R&D) subsidies on R&D inputs of large- and medium-sized firms and on additional innovation and economic activities in Chinese provinces. A panel vector autoregressive (VAR) model and corresponding impulse response function (IRF) analysis...

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Regional growth and regional decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - 2013

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Determinants of city growth in Brazil

Mata, Daniel da; Deichmann, Uwe; Henderson, J. Vernon; … - 2015

In this paper, we examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. We consider a model of a city, which combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, we constructed a dataset of 123 Brazilian...

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Evaluating multiple spatial dimensionsof economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data models (1970-2000)

Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; … - 2015

south in Brazil. Moreover, the positive average-years-of-schooling coefficient gets larger as more aggregate spatial scales …

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Estimating potential output : a survey of the alternative methods and their applications to Brazil

Barbosa Filho, Nelson Henrique - 2015

alternative methods and analyze their application and implications for growth forecasts and macroeconomic policy in Brazil. The … growth-accounting exercises. The main conclusions are: i) the annual potential growth rate of Brazil's Gross Domestic Product … separable from effective GDP in the long-run; ii) growth-accounting and time-series studies of Brazil result in low potential …

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The role of industrial sector in the Brazilian territorial reconfiguration : new expressions for XXI century national dilemmas

Monteiro Neto, Aristides; Silva, Raphael de Oliveira; … - 2022

In this article, we discuss the current pattern of territorial reconfiguration of the Brazilian industry, its current forms, and motivations in order to problematize some of the most significant challenges of the current regional issue. We have brought new evidence of how it keeps...

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Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe : changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019

Bauluz, Luis; Bukowski, Pawel; Fransham, Mark; Lee, … - 2023

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