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The regional effects of macroeconomic shocks in China

Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2015

on the regional distribution of output of shocks to national macroeconomic variables such as GDP and investment. This is … instruments such as investment expenditure. It is likely that such national shocks will have differential regional impacts and so … provincial outputs of shocks to aggregate output and investment. We find great diversity of effects across the provinces with …

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Natural disasters, growth and institutions : a tale of two earthquakes

Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - 2013

We examine the impact of natural disasters on economic growth by applying a synthetic control approach. In contrast to previous literature, we adopt a within-country perspective, which allows us to use richer and more comparable data and to better define the geographic area hit by the disaster....

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Labor productivity growth in EU28 : spatial panel analysis

Olejnik, Alicja; Olejnik, Jakub - 2015

This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process...

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Winning the oil lottery : the impact of natural resource extraction on growth

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel da; Toscani, Frederik - 2014 - Version: February 9, 2014

This paper studies the effect of oil discoveries on economic growth in Brazilian municipalities for the period from 1940 to 2000. It uses a unique identification strategy which exploits data on the drilling of approximately 20,000 oil wells in Brazil since oil explorations began in the country....

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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis

Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012

The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...

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Income polarization and stagnation in a stochastic model of growth : when the demand side matters

Gries, Thomas - 2019

This contribution is motivated by two stylized observations, the slowdown in growth, and a simultaneous income polarization in many advanced economies. While mainstream neoclassical and endogenous growth theory cannot sufficiently explain the nexus, we argue that the demand side plays a role. We...

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Distributional effects of surging housing costs under Schwabe's law of rent

Grossmann, Volker; Larin, Benjamin; Löfflad, Hans Torben; … - 2019

The upward sloping trend of rents and house prices has initiated a debate on the consequences of surging housing costs for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the...

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Essays on network industries : privatization, regulation, and productivity measurement

Kuhlmann, Andreas - 2007

This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...

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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

The choice of the spatial scale of analysis is a problematic issue in applied research, particularly in the literature of regional economic growth. Nevertheless, it is evident that regional scientists have been slow at demonstrating the empirical implications of changes in spatial scale of...

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Reflections on progress : essays on the global political economy

Derviş, Kemal - 2016

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