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O necessário, o possível e o impossível: Uma leitura do papel das políticas públicas diante dos limites à coordenação de grandes investimentos na periferia metropolitana Fluminense...
Sobral, Bruno Leonardo Barth - 2015
Over the last decades, the challenge of giving support to national economic growth process has become an undisputed issue. Since the second term of the Lula government, the theme of resumption of investment was imposed. In particular, the State of Rio de Janeiro benefited from a cycle of large...
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Ciclo e crise: Limites à capacidade de um crescimento econômico sustentado na periferia metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro diante do ciclo recente de grandes investimentos
Sobral, Bruno Leonardo Barth - 2015
The metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro has an urban structure "macrocefálica" in which the hinterland remains "the shadow of the metropolis" with other reduced centrality. However, in the recent period, there was the advent of large investment projects in its periphery, notably in the steel,...
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Moonshot : Public R&D and Growth
Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322858
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Disparidades do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) per capita no Brasil: Uma análise de convergência em diferentes escalas regionais (1970-2008)
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos - 2013
This paper investigates the evolution of the Brazilian per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - known as sigma-convergence … the scale reduction. This suggests the occurrence of a distinct convergence process of the per capita GPD between the two … North and Northeast and the convergence for the rest of the country. This result shows that there is not one scale that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330925
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Political electoral cycles and public investments in Brasil
Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372187
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Ciclos políticos eleitorais e investimentos das administrações públicas no Brasil
Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in public investments in Brazil. This approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling whose greatest benefit is estimating the cyclical component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372358
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Labour market externalities and regional growth in Sweden: The importance of labour mobility between skill-related industries
Boschma, Ron; Eriksson, Rikard; Lindgren, Urban - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013
This study investigates the relationship between labour market externalities and regional growth based on real labour flows. In particular, we test for the importance of labour mobility across so-called skill-related industries. We make use of a sophisticated indicator that measures the degree...
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Regional variety and employment growth in Italian labour market areas: services versus manufacturing industries
Mameli, Francesca; Iammarino, Simona; Boschma, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of regional sectoral diversity on regional employment growth in Italy over the period 1991-2001. Assuming that externalities may be stronger between industries selling similar products or sharing the same skills and technology (i.e. related industries), we...
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Determinantes regionais da produtividade industrial: O papel da infraestrutura
Schettini, Daniela; Azzoni, Carlos Roberto - 2015
This paper evaluated the role of infrastructure on the productivity of industries in the Brazilian mesoregions. We found that infrastructure positively affects the efficiency of industries, although due to the size of the estimated coefficients, this influence is small. Considering the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444839
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Knowledge Coherence, Variety and Productivity Growth: Manufacturing Evidence from Italian Regions
Quatraro, Francesco - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009
This paper analyzes the effects of the evolution of knowledge base in the manufacturing sectors on regional productivity growth. Knowledge is viewed as a heterogeneous asset, and an evolutionary perspective is adopted. The results of the empirical estimations corroborate the hypothesis that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965517