C<sc>rocco</sc> M., F<sc>aria</sc>-S<sc>ilva</sc> F., P<sc>aulo</sc>-R<sc>ezende</sc> L. and R<sc>odríguez</sc>-F<sc>uentes</sc> C. J. Banks and regional development: an empirical analysis on the determinants of credit availability in Brazilian regions, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper studies the influence that liquidity preference and bank lending strategies...

This enlightening and significant volume focuses on the nature, causes and features of economic growth across a wide range of countries and regions. Covering a variety of growth related topics – from theoretical analyses of economic growth in general to empirical analyses of growth in the...

Reúne artigos de Carlos Antonio Brandão, Clélio Campolina Diniz, Eduardo José Monteiro da Costa, Fabiana Santos, Francisco de Oliveira, Lízia de Figueiredo, Marco Crocco, Maria Abadia da Silva Alves, Mauro Borges Lemos, Pedro Silveira Bandeira, Ricardo Machado Ruiz, Roberto Luís Monte-Mór...

In this paper some elements of Keynes's theory of probability are used to understand the process of diffusion of an innovation. Based on a work done elsewhere (Crocco 1999, 2000), we argue that this process can be viewed as a process of dealing with the collective uncertainty about how to sort a...

The literature on industrial and regional economics is full of cases studies of local productive agglomerations. A significant part of the empirical studies on this subject have concentrated on the analysis of existing productive agglomerations. In contrast, there are few studies that attempt...

In this paper, some elements of Keynes's theory of probability are used to understand the process of diffusion of an innovation. Based on work done elsewhere, it is argued that this process can be viewed as a process of dealing with the collective uncertainty about how to sort out a...