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Jian, Tianlun; Sachs, Jeffrey; Warner, Andrew M. - 2021

Several recent studies have examined the tendency of regions within a nation to exhibit long-term convergence in per capita income levels. Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991, 1992, 1995) have found a tendency towards convergence among the U.S. states, among Japanese prefectures, and among regions...

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Regional Transfers

Corbi, Raphael B. - 2014

We exploit a series of discontinuities, at several population thresholds, in the allocation mechanism of federal transfers to municipal governments in Brazil to identify the causal effect of municipal spending on local labor markets, using a ‘fuzzy' regression discontinuity design. Our...

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Economic Growth and Convergence Across the United States

Barro, Robert J.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021

A key economic issue is whether poor countries or regions tend to grow faster than rich ones: are there automatic forces that lead to convergence over time in levels of per capita income and product? After considering predictions of closed- and open-economy neoclassical growth theories, we...

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Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

Delgado, Mercedes - 2015

This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries, clusters and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining...

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Growth in Regions

Gennaioli, Nicola - 2015

We use a newly assembled sample of 1,503 regions from 82 countries to compare the speed of per capita income convergence within and across countries. Regional growth is shaped by similar factors as national growth, such as geography and human capital. Regional convergence is about 2.5% per year,...

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Persistence and Path Dependence in the Spatial Economy

Allen, Treb; Donaldson, Dave - 2022

How much of the spatial distribution of economic activity today is determined by history rather than by geographic fundamentals? And if history matters for the distribution, does it also affect overall efficiency? This paper develops a tractable theoretical and empirical framework that aims to...

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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization

Wang, Jing - 2012

This paper focuses on the contribution to recent narrowing of the gap between Northern and Southern economies in GDP/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three currently largest rapidly growing Southern...

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Solow and the States : Capital Accumulation, Productivity and Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021

indicate a substantial role for human capital accumulation in raising productivity, in contrast to the neoclassical focus on …

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Chinese Rural Industrial Productivity and Urban Spillovers

Peng, Yusheng - 2014

productivity from being near cities (30 to 35 percent higher productivity for a county one standard deviation above average in …

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Purchased Services, Outsourcing, Computers, and Productivity in Manufacturing

Siegel, Donald S.; Griliches, Zvi - 2021

understatement of input growth in manufacturing, and thus. overstatement of growth in productivity. GNP, and value-added in …) improvement in measured manufacturing productivity growth can be attributed to an increase in the rate of foreign and domestic … outsource is unrelated to its acceleration in productivity. In auditing the industry numbers, we found that a non …

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