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The impact of US macroeconomic news announcements on Chinese commodity futures
Cai, Haidong; Ahmed, Shamim; Jiang, Ying; Liu, Xiaoquan - In: Quantitative finance 20 (2020) 12, pp. 1927-1966
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Short run dynamics of income disparities and regional cycle synchronization : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association, 30 August - 3 September 2011, Barcelona
Duran, Hasan Engin - 2011
Since the 1990s, the issue of regional income convergence and its long term tendencies has been thoroughly and heatedly discussed. Much less attention, however, has been devoted to the short-run dynamics of regional convergence. In particular, three important aspects have not yet been adequately...
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Swedish regional development initiatives in a gender perspective : a regional policy programme evaluated against transversal objective
Widerstedt, Barbro - 2011
Gender equality has long been a focus in regional development in the European Union. In a Swedish context, the interest has been borne from the fact that rural and sparsely populated areas have a 'women shortage', and that this tendency is accelerating as young women move to cities, while young...
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Human capital, R&D and productivity convergence of European regions : a spatial analysis of RHOMOLO's semi endogenous growth approach.
Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2011 - Very preliminary
The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European regions. Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the cause of differences in the speed by which follower regions converge and catch-up with...
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Regional dynamics of private pension funds in Romania : 51th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, 30th August - 3rd September 2011, Barcelona, Spain
Constantinescu, Dan - 2011
The number of participants in the private pension funds, as well as the volume of their contribution, differs significant in each development region. It goes without saying that the territorial distribution of the indicators related to pension funds are influenced, on the one hand, by the offer...
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RHOMOLO : a dynamic general equilibrium modelling approach to the evaluation of the EU's regional policies
Gardiner, Ben; Kancs, D'Artis - 2011
the European Commission (JRC-IPTS, together with DG REGIO) for evaluating EU Cohesion Policy. The design of the model … - regionally, the aim is for complete NUTS2 (NUTS1 for Germany) coverage of the EU27, while the potential sector coverage is 23 …
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What about regions in regional science? : an exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Cravo, Túlio - 2013
in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs … within countries at finer scales (NUTS3 level) rather than between EU countries. Furthermore, these findings hold when we …
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Measuring regional inequalities in Greek tourism development : ersa : regional integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the world economy : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013,...
Gaki, Eleni; Lagos, Dimitris G.; Kostopoulou, Stella - 2013
In recent times, the attention given to the importance of tourism as a particularly efficient way to promote regional development has significantly increased, owing to the capacity of tourism to create income and employment and to generate synergies within other economic sectors. Tourism is...
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Effectiveness of structural funds : microlevel perspective (case of Slovakia)
Šipikal, Miroslav - 2011
Cohesion policy and regional policy as a main part of cohesion policy are the most important policies of European Union. This could also be view from the volume of financial resources allocated for these policies. One of the main current research issues is analyzing efficiency and effectiveness...
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Exploring spatial contagion in Spain's international migration distribution : 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, Barcelona, 30th August - 3rd...
Hierro, María - 2011
This paper explores the Spain's international migration distribution (SIMD) for the 1998-2009 period. Beyond a general depiction of the distribution, the study pays special attention to the role played by space and, particularly, to the possibility of geographical contagion effects. For this...
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