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This paper represents a continuation of a previous paper, Mutaşcu & Dima (2005), where we demonstrated the “abnormal” behavior that local authority from Romania is manifesting regarding the subventions received from the central budget. In accord with public choice theory, exist an...
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This study investigates the relationship between road infrastructure capital stock and total factor productivity (TFP) in Japan using the R-JIP 2017 database, allowing us to estimate TFP by considering the input quality. Using the growth accounting method, we estimate the TFP of each industry in...
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There are no book length treatments of spatial spillovers that provide theoretical and empirical analyses of this topic within different regions in the continent of Asia. As such, the primary objective of this book is to provide expansive studies of spatial spillovers and their salience by...
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In Romania, the issue of economic inequalities and regional convergence is one of the current important topics on which the attention of economic specialists and the decision-making factors is focused. In the current context, the regional policy in Romania is implemented at regional level, the...
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We checked against the law of one price between urban and rural consumer price indices of goods and services in Nigeria, using data that span January 1995 to April 2024. By first testing for persistence in price indices, we found a similar pattern of persistence that is non-mean reverting in all...
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In 2017 the US Congress passes and President Donald J. Trump signs the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Part of the legislation allows states to create economic opportunity zones (EOZs), census tracts which will be targeted for business investment and economic development through federal tax...
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The gap in the employment dynamics between larger urban areas and other areas has widened dramatically in recent decades in advanced economies. A proposed explanation for this trend argues that the technological change occurs with greater intensity in larger urban areas than in medium and small...
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We analyze economic growth in a stylized, high-tech region A with two key features. First, the residents of this region are high-tech because they possess skills. In the language of Richard Florida, these residents comprise the region’s creative class and they possess creative capital. Second,...
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To investigate questions related to migration and trade, a model of regional or international development is created by altering Melitz and Ottaviano (2008) to include a labor market. The model is then applied to analyze poverty traps and the home market effect. We find that in the spatial...
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This study examines the impact of agricultural exports and CO2 emissions on economic growth in 78 high-income countries from 2004 to 2023. Using a robust econometric framework that includes fixed-effects and random-effects models, the research finds that agricultural exports positively influence...
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