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Sports and Regional Growth in Sweden - Is a successful professional sports team good for regional economic growth?
Värja, Emelie - 2014
This study investigates whether net inbound migration and per capita income growth of a municipality is affected when a local sports team enters or exits the premium national leagues in ice hockey or soccer in Sweden. Local governments frequently support a local professional team through direct...
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Growth spillovers in the MENA region
Baysoy, Merve Aksoylar; Altug, Sumru - 2019
In this paper, we examine the role of spillovers in economic growth for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by accounting for spatial effects. Such spatial effects in growth for the MENA countries may arise on the basis of geography, bilateral trade or institutional similarities. We...
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Commuting in Europe: An Inter-regional Analysis on its Determinants and Spatial Effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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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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Trade-offs in Achieving Human Development Goals for Bangladesh
Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2014
Even though Bangladesh has made progress towards reaching some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is still a major challenge for the government to further reduce poverty and improve human developments, in particular achieving a 100 percent primary-school completion rate. As foreign...
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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...
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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 …
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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