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Technological spillovers and industrial growth in Chinese regions

Wang, Lili; Meijers, Huub; Szirmai, Eddy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper focuses on the role of interregional technology spillovers in the process of industrial growth in Chinese regions in the period 1990-2005. Inflows of FDI increased rapidly from 1990 till 1998, slowing down thereafter. Domestic R&D investment accelerated after 1998. Regional industrial...

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Summarizing large spatial datasets: Spatial principal components and spatial canonical correlation

Bhupathiraju, Samyukta; Verspagen, Bart; Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

We propose a method for spatial principal components analysis that has two important advantages over the method that Wartenberg (1985) proposed. The first advantage is that, contrary to Wartenberg's method, our method has a clear and exact interpretation: it produces a summary measure...

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Public Capital and Income Distribution: a Marriage of Hicks & Newman-Read

Getachew, Yoseph - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

This paper examines how publicly provided inputs could affect income distribution. By applying the Newman-Read production function- a generalized Cobb-Douglas production function- to Hicks's idea of the determinant of factor share, such usually complex dynamics remain analytically tractable. The...

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Public Capital, Income Distribution and Growth

Getachew, Yoseph - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Public capital investment plays an important role in long run growth through enhancing productivity and complementing the accumulation of private inputs. Under appropriate conditions, public capital could also have important implications for income distribution dynamics. When the credit market...

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Public investment and regional politics: The case of Turkey

Muysken J.; de, Crombrugghe D.P.I.; Celbis M.G. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

The determinants of the regional allocation of transportation and communication investments are analysed for the twenty-six statistical regions of Turkey for the years 1999 through 2011. A unique regional GVA series covering this period is constructed for this purpose. We specifically account...

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How big is the impact of infrastructure on trade? Evidence from meta-analysis

Celbis, Mehmet Güney; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure...

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Convergence of European Regions: A Reappraisal

Azomahou, Theophile T.; El Ouardighi, Jalal; Nguyen-Van, Phu - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

We provide a reappraisal of income convergence across European regions over the period 1990-2005 by using a … initial GDP per capita. Estimation results point out both country heterogeneity and non-linearity in the convergence process …. Only low income regions converge while there is little evidence of convergence for higher income regions. …

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Creating the Capacity to Benefit from Technological Change in Developing Countries

Wamae, Watu - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

What really makes an economy competitive? This paper reviews and discusses how the capacity to generate, exploit and diffuse new knowledge is key in enabling countries to capitalise on challenges brought about by rapid technology-driven transformations rather than succumb to their adverse...

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Explaining Success and Failure in Development

Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Since 1950, there has been considerable diversity in developing country experiences. Some countries and some regions have experienced rapid growth and catch up, others have fallen behind. At a global level there is an increasing inequality of per capita incomes. However, within the framework of...

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Transition to knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia

Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper discusses the progress in transition to knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia. As for the methodology, this paper uses updated secondary data obtained from different sources. It uses both descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the OECD definition of knowledge-based economy...

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