L'objectif de cet article est d'introduire des externalités spatiales dans le modèle de croissance de Solow afin de tenir compte de l'interdépendance géographique des régions. Ces externalités sont générées par le stock de capital accumulé par les régions voisines. Par conséquent,...

We explore the role of financial development to explain the negative correlation between capital inflows and productivity catch-up. Evidence shows that countries with higher productivity growth rates export capital while countries with lower productivity growth rates receive positive capital...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the theoretical and econometric implications of omitting spatial dependence in the Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) model. Indeed, the international distribution of income levels and growth rates suggests the existence of large international disparities, and...

Although the choice of the spatial scale of analysis is a problematic issue in applied research (specifically, in the literature of regional economic growth), it is evident that regional scientists have been very slow at demonstrating the implications of aggregation problems on empirical...

Energy is always the important material for economic growth and social development. A new index of energy efficiency called total factor energy efficiency (TFEE) consists of energy, capital, labor and other input that produce GDP as output. TFEE index is accounted by DEA through multiple...

ABSTRACT. A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9...