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This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...
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The aim of our analysis is the evaluation of the total and sectoral convergence of labour productivity between 182 … adopt a β- and sígma-convergence approach along with a methodology based on Getis' spatial filters that allows decomposing … and low productivity, respectively 'core' and 'periphery'. Our results show significant sígma-convergence in aggregate …
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This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...
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rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … (which is a proxy for city size) has positive impact on the speed of convergence. Using geographical location characteristics …
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Researchers have repeatedly noted that the results in spatial-econometric studies depend significantly on the level of regional aggregation (Jacobs-Crisioni et al., 2014; Kang et al., 2014, Baltagi, Li, 2014). Currently, hierarchical models can contribute a lot to the studies of spatial effects...
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due to declining economic activity. The trend toward regional economic convergence has been interrupted, not only in a …
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