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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:52
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Transportation and Infrastructure, Retail Clustering, and Local Public Finance: Evidence from Wal-Mart's Expansion
Hicks, Michael
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
The author examines the role highway infrastructure and local property tax rate variability play
in retail agglomeration in Indiana from 1988 through 2003. To account for data errors and the
potential endogeneity of taxes and infrastructure on retail agglomeration, he introduces a unique
identification strategy that exploits the entrance timing and location of Wal-Mart stores in Indiana.
Using a time-series cross-sectional model of Indiana’s 92 counties from 1988 through 2003, he
estimates the impact highway infrastructure, property taxes, and big-box competition have in
creating regional agglomerations. Among two separate specifications and a full and rural-only set
of the data, the author finds considerable agreement in the results. In the full sample, he finds no
relationship between property tax rates or highway infrastructure and retail agglomeration. Within
the non-metropolitan statistical area (MSA) counties, this relationship is very modest, though it
possesses considerable statistical certainty. Highway impacts within the non-MSA counties are
significant and positively related to retail agglomeration, with the presence of highways explaining
about 10 percent of total agglomeration variability. (JEL R11, R53)
2006
MPRA Paper
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Hicks, Michael (2006): Transportation and Infrastructure, Retail Clustering, and Local Public Finance: Evidence from Wal-Mart's Expansion. Published in: Regional Economic Development , Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006): pp. 100-114.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:683
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Background, Assessment and Analysis of the Gender Issues in Pakistan
Moheyuddin, Ghulam
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
This paper describes the assessment of the gender issue in Pakistan, review and analysis of the major sector depicting gender inequalities. Before continuing to the detailed analysis of the gender issues in Pakistan, it gives a bird’s eye-view of the socio-economic, political and cultural background of Pakistan. The paper explains the areas of critical gender inequalities in Pakistan and reviews the various gender indicators in Pakistan. It also discusses the current policies and the programs addressing the gender issues in Pakistan and the suggests some policy recommendations to improve the women’s status in Pakistan.
2005-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/683/1/MPRA_paper_683.pdf
Moheyuddin, Ghulam (2005): Background, Assessment and Analysis of the Gender Issues in Pakistan.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:711
2019-10-01T04:58:34Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/711/
The redefinition of Europe's Less Favoured Areas
Dax, Thomas
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
The support scheme for farming in less-favoured areas, established by the European Union in 1975, marked a major change in the nature of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by introducing for the first time regional categories. It also represented the initiation of direct annual payments to farmers, an approach which was to expand greatly in the 1990s and thereafter. Over a long period it had remained the only significant structural measure of agricultural policy with a territorial dimension. Only recent policy reforms changed this situation: commodity market support was gradually decreased and, on the other hand, the environmental implications of policy measures were increasingly emphasised. Discussions on the interrelations of the Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) scheme with Agri-Environmental Measures (AEM) and other elements of the Rural Development Programmes (RDP) have been intensified as the political and financial weight of the programmes gained in importance. This paper focuses on the objectives and relevance of the LFA support scheme, its application in the EU and the main elements of the debate for the redefinition of LFA support.
From the very beginning, LFA policy was conceived as a structural policy aimed at the prevention of land abandonment, to preserve the farming population in these areas and maintain cultural landscapes. In this regard, the instrument was one of the first measures to address environmentally beneficial farming systems, and thus reveals high coincidence with High Nature Value (HNV) farming systems.
The three types of LFA, mountain areas, other LFAs and areas affected by specific handicaps take account of the range of geographical differences in the production difficulties of EU agriculture. The increased focus on environmental aims resulted in a discussion of the ‘intermediate’ areas, the category of other LFAs. It has been proposed that the socio-economic criterion in determining these areas should be dropped, but the aim to maintain land management in marginal areas would be kept. Meanwhile, the decision on the redefinition of the LFAs has been postponed (to 2010). Nevertheless the issue will keep a central role in policy discussions of the future Rural Development Programmes.
2005-11-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Dax, Thomas (2005): The redefinition of Europe's Less Favoured Areas.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:750
2019-09-27T18:55:59Z
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The on-going CAP-reform – incentive for a shift towards rural development activities?
Dax, Thomas
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
Q0 - General
The paper is based on the findings of a 2 year, EU-wide project on the territorial impacts of the CAP (ESPON project 2.1.3). It particularly focuses on the territorial impact of the different components of CAP and assesses the changes towards rural development policy. The results presented are derived from statistical analysis of the database augmented by findings from an EU-wide review of literature and a series of case studies on the implementation experiences of the main rural development measures across the EU.
It is shown that pillar 2 support is still strongly centred on agricultural measures and actors and far from reaching its potential for enhancing a more generally applied rural development strategy. The discussion of the paper will focus on the differing national priorities, and the uneven allocation of RDR funds, partly due to difficulties of co-financing in poorer regions. Importantly, analysis of the impact of the Mid Term Review proposals on farm incomes suggests that the latest reforms of the CAP do not improve substantially the consistency between the CAP, and cohesion. In particular, the proposed application of the CAP-reform in different member states shall be discussed and assessed whether the changes in the framework of rural development contribute to achieve a more balanced performance across EU countries and regions.
2005-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/750/1/MPRA_paper_750.pdf
Dax, Thomas (2005): The on-going CAP-reform – incentive for a shift towards rural development activities?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1153
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The Spatial and Public Economics of Regions, a Theoretical and Empirical Survey
Candau, Fabien
R0 - General
F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; Fragmentation
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
The aim of this paper is to survey what has been done by the New
Economic Geography (NEG) on a regional scale in order to answer the
three following questions: what are the predictions of the NEG concerning
the future of regions in the triad? Are these predictions robust? What can
be the optimal public policy on a regional and national scale in a world
characterized by agglomeration, trade liberalization and entrepreneurs�
mobility?
2006-05-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1153/1/MPRA_paper_1153.pdf
Candau, Fabien (2006): The Spatial and Public Economics of Regions, a Theoretical and Empirical Survey.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1370
2019-09-30T00:26:21Z
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Key Issues on Tourism Strategies
Carvalho, Pedro G.
L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
O22 - Project Analysis
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
After an institutional request, strategic planning is usually promoted by teams
coordinated by one expert in the field, by a firm or by a University. The day it is
delivered there is a general feeling of frustration with the outcome. This feeling is most
likely due to an incomplete diffusion process or/and to some difficulties to measure long
term and intangible outcomes.
In this paper we intend to overcome some of these misinterpretations, reflecting on the
mostly theoretical questions popping up from recent study cases; it is essentially centred
upon the lived experiences and the methodological issues that only future will assess.
This paper is also an academic exercise to share with the regional science peers the life
experiment we had during PETUR (Strategic Plan for Tourism in Serra Estrela -
Portugal), the acronym of the work team I coordinated, which rose a number of practical
questions that one should reflect upon under recent theoretical developments in social
sciences involving decision and collective action. The paper is structured as follows: (1)
a context introduction; (2) an international and national literature review considering
then in more detail (3) some recent developments on innovation diffusion theories. The
(4) section illustrates some of the initiatives we took in the case study for a the specific
region in Serra da Estrela, an internal small region located in between the Portuguese
Atlantic coast and the Spanish border; the (5) section is devoted to the main focus of the
paper - key issues in tourism Strategies.
The paper will close with the concluding remarks where private-public partnership is
mostly considered a complex learning process in order to excel in innovative diffusion
processes.
JEL Classification: R58; L83; O22; L26; C61; H77
2006-11-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Carvalho, Pedro G. (2006): Key Issues on Tourism Strategies. Published in: (2007)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1672
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The Economic Impact on the Dominican Republic of Baseball Player Exports to the USA
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O40 - General
L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
O54 - Latin America ; Caribbean
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
This paper pulls together into one practical model two strands of economic theory to assess the impact of baseball
player exports on the aggregate economic performance of the Dominican Republic. On one hand, foreign trade theory
predicts a strong correlation between a country’s exports and economic performance measured as per capita income.
On the other hand, microeconomic research finds a positive, but statistically insignificant, impact of sports activities
on local economies. Analysis finds a strong correlation between baseball player exports and economic performance for
the years 1962-2004, suggesting that both the USA and the Dominican Republic benefit from encouraging baseball
player trade and repatriation of baseball export earnings.
2006-10-22
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1672/1/MPRA_paper_1672.pdf
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich (2006): The Economic Impact on the Dominican Republic of Baseball Player Exports to the USA.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1739
2019-10-02T16:47:39Z
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«El agua y el teléfono. Relaciones entre el Ayuntamiento y una empresa privada en la ciudad de México, 1881-1911»,
Víctor, Cuchí Espada
N46 - Latin America ; Caribbean
N96 - Latin America ; Caribbean
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
This is the history of the relationship between the Mexican Telephone Company and Mexico City municipal council in regard to a controversy about the government's longdrawn insistence on the telephone company to withdraw its street poles. The US company, however, based its opostition in the capital city's peculiar relationship with water. Built over a dried up lake it was nevertheless prone to flood. Yet the oportunity to get rid of the poles came when most of the flooding was fionally controled after 1900. Two years later, the city council named a special commission to study the feasibility of building an underground network so the telephone, telegraph and electric power utilities could bury their wires.
1999-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1739/1/MPRA_paper_1739.pdf
Víctor, Cuchí Espada (1999): «El agua y el teléfono. Relaciones entre el Ayuntamiento y una empresa privada en la ciudad de México, 1881-1911»,. Published in: Anuario de Espacios Urbanos, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, plantel Azcapotzalco, México, 2005. (January 2005): pp. 35-47.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1740
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Corporate Policy in Mexico During the Porfirian Age. The Telephone Companies, 1881-1905
Víctor, Cuchí Espada
N76 - Latin America ; Caribbean
N96 - Latin America ; Caribbean
R59 - Other
In Mexico City, in the heyday of the Porfirio Díaz’s regime (1877-1911), a telephone system was developed by a private carrier, whose parent company was American Bell Telephone Company, which grew into a privately owned monopoly that served a clientele made up mostly of businessmen and government institutions. This essay tries to explain the company’s corporate policies to grow and profit in this incipient market, as well of the municipal council to regulate its operations till 1903, when its administrative powers were taken away by the federal government.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1740/1/MPRA_paper_1740.pdf
Víctor, Cuchí Espada (2005): Corporate Policy in Mexico During the Porfirian Age. The Telephone Companies, 1881-1905.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1918
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A Life experiment of development Mountain tourism in Portugal observed from the point of view of theories of Complexity, Complication and Self-organization
Carvalho, Pedro G.
Sonis, Michael
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O22 - Project Analysis
O52 - Europe
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
This paper is an attempt to use the ideas of deepening complexity and self organization theory to a life experiment in developing tourism in a Portuguese mountain region da Estrela.
2007-01-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1918/1/MPRA_paper_1918.pdf
Carvalho, Pedro G. and Sonis, Michael (2007): A Life experiment of development Mountain tourism in Portugal observed from the point of view of theories of Complexity, Complication and Self-organization.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2016
2019-09-27T16:52:52Z
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Units of investigation for local economic development policies
Russo, Margherita
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
The idea that industry is not an adequate research unit in the analysis of development pol-icy is well known. It was present in the tradition of regional economists working on the con-cept of industrial complex, in Perroux’ theory of the pole of development, in Damhen’s defi-nition of development blocks, and in the view of development put forward by Hirschman. Nevertheless, even if they have typified the development policies of many countries in the past decades, the notions of industrial complex and pole of development now seem less effec-tive than the notion of industrial district. This notion, which emerged during the Eighties in the interpretation of the development of certain Italian regions, is gaining wide acceptance in the Anglo-American literature on development policies and in the literature investigating the “hybrid forms of organization” that are neither market, nor hierarchically coordinated.
Comparing the notions of industrial complex and pole of development, this article intends to offer a preliminary outline of the conditions in which the notion of industrial district can become an effective tool for analysis and formulation of development policy.
L'idée que l'industrie seule ne constitue pas une unité de recherche suffisante dans l'analyse des politiques de développement est bien connue. On constate sa présence dans la tradition des économistes dont les recherches se concentrent sur les régions et qui s'occupent du concept de complexe d'industries, dans la théorie de Perroux sur le pôle de développement, dans la définition de Dahmen du bloc de développement, et dans la vision du développement proposée par Hirschman. Quoiqu'elles caractérisent depuis des décennies les politiques de dé-veloppement de beaucoup de pays, les notions de complexe d'industries et de pôle de déve-loppement semblent moins efficaces que la notion de district industriel. Cette notion, qui émerge dans les années quatre-vingts dans l'analyse du développement de certaines régions d'Italie, s'impose de plus en plus à l'attention dans la littérature anglo-américaine sur les politi-ques de croissance et dans les études sur des formes hybrides d'organisation qui ne sont coor-données ni selon le marché ni selon une hiérarchie.
Mettant la notion du complexe d'industries en comparaison avec celle du pôle de dévelop-pement, cet article propose de donner un aperçu des conditions dans lesquelles la notion de district industriel peut devenir un outil efficace pour l'analyse et la formulation des politiques de développement.
1996
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Russo, Margherita (1996): Units of investigation for local economic development policies. Published in: Materiali di discussione No. 106 (1994): pp. 1-33.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2223
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Comparative urban institutions and intertemporal externality: a revisit of the Coase conjecture
Deng, Feng
P48 - Political Economy ; Legal Institutions ; Property Rights ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Regional Studies
H41 - Public Goods
L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
L12 - Monopoly ; Monopolization Strategies
Coase originally formulated his conjecture about intertemporal price competition in the context of a land market, but it has been applied almost exclusively to non-spatial markets. This paper revisits the Coase Conjecture in the context of land development and urban institutions. I compare four institutional arrangements based on the combination of land tenure options and local governance forms: private/rental, public/rental, private/owner and public/owner. The two-period model developed in this paper shows that homeownership may result in more land development than leasehold. Numeric examples suggest (1) public/owner, i.e., the common form of government providing collective goods, may be efficient for more uniform distribution of consumer; (2) rentals can be desirable for “poor” communities; (3) private/owner, such as CID (Common Interest Development) and condominium, is more efficient for “rich” communities; (4) restrictive zoning reduces social surplus, and “rich” community may adopt more restrictive measures. These results may help explain why public institutions are dominant in urban setting and why most private communities are small and located in the suburbs.
2003
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Deng, Feng (2003): Comparative urban institutions and intertemporal externality: a revisit of the Coase conjecture.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2816
2019-10-22T17:05:44Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3065
2019-10-01T18:09:22Z
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Incentivos à localização em Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - os séculos XII a XVI
Mourao, Paulo
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
N53 - Europe: Pre-1913
This work focuses on the importance of local incentives, in the region of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Portugal), during the 12th and the 16th centuries. It aims to test the hypothesis that actualised incentives are factors of municipal attractivity. For this purpose, a model is enunciated; this model is inspired by the usual context of industrial location. As results from the documental evidence this work concludes that the presence of actualised incentives were important in the decentralized decisions from the “Forais”, in the considered period.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3065/1/MPRA_paper_3065.pdf
Mourao, Paulo (2005): Incentivos à localização em Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - os séculos XII a XVI. Published in: História Econômica & História de Empresas , Vol. VIII, No. 2 (July 2005): pp. 7-24.
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"Que critérios redistributivos na Lei das Finanças Locais?"
Mourao, Paulo
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
R51 - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
Este trabalho discute que critérios (rawlsianos, dotações de factores ou utilitaristas) predominam no articulado da Lei das Finanças Locais de Portugal desde finais da década de 1970. Conclui advogando que predominam critérios de natureza utilitarista através das estimações conseguidas a partir de um modelo que relaciona o crescimento de uma série com a disparidade de dotações pelas unidades visadas.
2003
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3068/1/MPRA_paper_3068.pdf
Mourao, Paulo (2003): "Que critérios redistributivos na Lei das Finanças Locais?". Published in: Revista Redes , Vol. 11, No. 1 (2006): pp. 163-185.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3210
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Poverty Reduction by Decentralisation: A Case for Rural Panchyats in Tamil Nadu
Sivagnanam, K. Jothi
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
R51 - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
An attempt has been made in this paper to study the linkage between decentralisation and poverty reduction with special reference to panchayati raj institutions in Tamil Nadu. The policy implication of the study emphasises that the process of decentralisation should be designed and implemented so as to achieve required reduction in poverty.
In the globalised era, decentralization has attracted significant interest in recent
years. Decentralization is being seen as one of the missing institutional link between economic growth and distributive justice. Decentralisation is linked to poverty reduction in many ways. While decentralization has become a development strategy of many developing countries, its linkage to poverty reduction in particular has been the subject of recent time. In India, where social and rural sector are still backward and further affected by the ongoing liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation process, even high growth rates and innumerable poverty eradication schemes of the union as well as the state governments have failed to ensure distributive justice and left millions in sustained deprivation. Panchayati raj institutions could be a promising institutional link to combat poverty in terms of efficient designing and effective targeting.
2007-07-22
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3210/1/MPRA_paper_3210.pdf
Sivagnanam, K. Jothi (2007): Poverty Reduction by Decentralisation: A Case for Rural Panchyats in Tamil Nadu.
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Vom Camarade Zum Monsieur: Strukturanpassung Und Demokratisierung in Benin
Kohnert, Dirk
Preuss, Hans-Joachim
P31 - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions
P37 - Legal Institutions ; Illegal Behavior
P32 - Collectives ; Communes ; Agriculture
P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
P52 - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
P33 - International Trade, Finance, Investment, Relations, and Aid
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
The process of political and economic liberalisation in Benin is regarded as a model for the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. Benin made history by becoming the first African country to overthrow a military dictator by democratic means. The civilian coup d'état cleared the way for economic recovery, too. The strengthening of democratic institutions, and the good will of the new government of the former high ranking World Bank-employee Soglo, to follow the recommendations of the structural adjustment program have been honoured by the donors' generosity. The recovery of the economy, however, was hampered by the underlying fabric of the socio-cultural structure of clientelism and patronage, which resulted in a situation in which the on-going structural adjustment program mainly served the vested interests of the state class and rival strategic groups, bargaining for the booty of increasing development assistance. Thus, socio-economic conditions for a self-sustaining development process and, consequently, increased development assistance are not yet met. Nevertheless, areas of co-operation do exist in the fields of liberty of press and opinion, basic needs and self-help organizations.
1992
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Kohnert, Dirk and Preuss, Hans-Joachim (1992): Vom Camarade Zum Monsieur: Strukturanpassung Und Demokratisierung in Benin. Published in: Peripherie No. 46 (1992): pp. 47-70.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4217
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The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.
Bierschenk, Thomas
Elwert, Georg
Kohnert, Dirk
N17 - Africa ; Oceania
F35 - Foreign Aid
A14 - Sociology of Economics
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O22 - Project Analysis
O55 - Africa
P52 - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial generalisations or condemnations of development projects, like the big farmers benefit at the expense of the smaller ones, or the men benefit at the expense of the women, do not hold up to verification. Quite to the contrary one observes a wide range of specific adapted forms by which the target groups react to the demands and offers of development projects, and thereby transform their own social structure. In short, one observes a great diversity of social self-organisation. The bureaucratic structures of the development administration do, however, unfortunately - more often than not - ignore the social dynamic of their target groups which they nevertheless sustain unconsciously. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often exceeds that of the national budget. It contributes, therefore, significantly to the development of a bureaucratic class and of its clients: the project development degenerates into a project nationalization / bureaucratization. This contrasts vividly with the strategies of the peasants. Men and women at village level do not accept any longer the paternalistic development approach. They just select what they need out of the packages of solutions that are offered to them, while they develop their own solutions, like a variety of seeds adapted to their specific resource endowments, diversified sources of income, different strategies of accumulation and risk prevention. All this allows for a gradual evolution by variation and selection. The dynamic of the rural society is to a large extent due to a competition of different (strategic) groups, opposed to one another, about the partitioning of the cake of development aid. Normally this struggle between different vested interests is covered up by the rhetoric of development planning. Planned development has up to now proven to be to rigid, to be able to take account of the complex and subtle fabric of self organisation. Aid sometimes appears to be a second best substitute for a vision of a democratic society. This is due to the fact that the structures we are aiming for in the long run - which are to allow for open markets, an orientation of the producers at the resources and needs of the nation, and last not least, the growth of indigenous structures of self-help - would require a responsible and democratic government, as well as the guarantee of civil rights, accountability, an independent judiciary, freedom of the press, etc.; up to now, however, all these elements are still oppressed by the commando state itself, well nourished by the various forms of technical and financial aid.
1991
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Bierschenk, Thomas and Elwert, Georg and Kohnert, Dirk (1991): The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa. Published in: Economics, Biannual Journal of the Institute for Scientific Co-operation, Tübingen , Vol. 47, No. 1 (1993): pp. 83-111.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4261
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4261/
From ‘Sustainability’ Frame To ‘Nationalist’ Master Frame: The Case with the Bulgarian Anti and Pro Nuclear Social Movements-Economic and Political Implications
Klimov, Blagoy
R50 - General
Q40 - General
F50 - General
Translation is power. As agents of power experienced translators can create powerful action frames that challenge the established routines. Iindividual beliefs that are sanctioned through ‘mutual awareness’ evolve into ‘collective beliefs’. The latter then are further shaped by properly translated frames to emerge as a social force. In this research paper, I explore how the collective action frames are restructured, specifically the role of the printed and electronic media in shaping the public discourse. The research is supported by the Bulgarian nuclear case, where an antinuclear collective action frame for less than ten years, was restructured into ‘national pride’ pro-nuclear frame through the translation of the media and what were the economic and political implications of such development.
Structure of the Paper:
In the first section of the paper, I explore in detail how global collective action frames develop and the three aspects involved in this processs-illegitimate inequality, identity and agency. Then I am interested what are the common beliefs that shape the collective identity of antinuclear movements and what is their collective action frame.
Then briefly the Bulgarian case is introduced, wher by late 1980’s the frame over nuclear issues was overlapping with the global ‘sustainable frame’ that prevailed in most Western societies by that time.
In the second section I explore what is what is the collective frame over the nuclear issues in the late 90’s and how the newly-emerged ‘national pride’ frame is a classical example for restructuring of a collective action frame.
In the third section I explore the agents of the reframing process and more closely the role of the media in shaping the collective beliefs. In the final part I elaborate on the question how the process of mass media’s translation in the Bulgarian case was crucial for the complete shift of the frame from ‘sustainability’ to ‘national pride’. I conclude with the question of authorities, losing their legitimacy, because of their lack of creating counterframes.
2003-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4261/1/MPRA_paper_4261.pdf
Klimov, Blagoy (2003): From ‘Sustainability’ Frame To ‘Nationalist’ Master Frame: The Case with the Bulgarian Anti and Pro Nuclear Social Movements-Economic and Political Implications.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4378
2019-09-27T17:30:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4378/
La planificación regional en Portugal y en la Comunidad Europea
Mourao, Paulo
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Abstract: Planning on the space needs sharing, conceiving, dividing and acting: sharing resources,
conceiving policies, dividing the territory, deciding by an enlightened way and acting with efficiency
and with efficacy. This work shows the richness related to the definition of regional space
and it verifies the multiple complexities of the processes of planning, deeply dependent on
the quality of the financing instruments or on the economic and political structures, also discussed
recurring to the examples of Portugal and of the European communitarian project.
2006-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4378/1/MPRA_paper_4378.pdf
Mourao, Paulo (2006): La planificación regional en Portugal y en la Comunidad Europea. Published in: Revista Galega de Economia , Vol. 16, No. 2 (2007)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4624
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4624/
L'Accesso al Credito è un Diritto
Reggiani, Tommaso
R51 - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages
This article proposes to analyze Grameen Bank operational system and its own evolution, illustrating the values that support this economics theory and the innovations that microcredit brings to the understanding of economics and banking phenomena.
2007-06-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4624/1/MPRA_paper_4624.pdf
Reggiani, Tommaso (2007): L'Accesso al Credito è un Diritto. Published in: ETICA Per Le Professioni , Vol. Vol. 1, No. (fondazione Lanza - Padova) (1 June 2007): pp. 85-92.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4661
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4661/
Relative remote rural areas (RRRA)in developed regions: an analysis of the Emilia-Romagna region to support policy decision making.
Zabbini, Enza
Grandi, Silvia
Dallari, Fiorella
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
C88 - Other Computer Software
R15 - Econometric and Input-Output Models ; Other Models
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
C30 - General
R14 - Land Use Patterns
This paper addresses the identification and the analysis of the remote rural areas (RRA) that should be at the center of future regional development policies for periphery areas in averagely highly developed territories, such as the Emilia-Romagna region. However, since none of the areas of the region can be defined lagging or underdeveloped when compared with the EU 25 countries, it is introduced the concept of “Relative” Remote Rural Area (RRRA) which partially could recall the semi-periphery in the theoretical scheme of Immanuel Wallestrein or the trasition area of Friedmann.
Methodologically, the investigation is done both by using as a basis an intermediate geographical level that can be considered in line with the NUTS4 one: the SLL (Local Working Systems) identified by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), and by a NUTS5-level cluster analysis performed using a selection of indicators, which includes demographic, socio-economic, employment, agricultural, infrastructure and commuting patterns. This work led to the identification and mapping of a set of municipalities that show the higher remote & rural features of the region. The Province of Ferrara resulted the NUTS3 level with the highest RRRA. After a discussion upon the main characteristics of this areas, preliminary policy indications for these territories are given.
2007-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4661/1/MPRA_paper_4661.pdf
Zabbini, Enza and Grandi, Silvia and Dallari, Fiorella (2007): Relative remote rural areas (RRRA)in developed regions: an analysis of the Emilia-Romagna region to support policy decision making. Published in: Note e Ricerche - Biblioteca Centralizzata del Polo Scientifico-Didattico di Rimini, Università di Bologna , Vol. Workin, (2007): pp. 1-29.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4779
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4779/
Infrastructural Facilities in India: District Level Availability Index
Majumder, Rajarshi
C43 - Index Numbers and Aggregation
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
R10 - General
The role of infrastructure in fostering economic growth and enhancing public welfare is more pronounced in developing economies like India. At the time of our independence, the national government was unanimous in accepting that a much wider base of infrastructure was the ‘sine qua non’ of economic development of this country. The complete consensus obviated the need for any debate on this issue and it was taken for granted that infrastructure sector needed both large scale action and outlay. There has been a remarkable growth in the absolute level of such facilities, as well as in the level relative to the size of the nation and population, i.e. in standardized forms, though the performance in terms of efficiency, quality and financial viability has remained circumspect, if not poor. However, a major aspect of this issue has been the wide regional variation in the availability of infrastructural facilities. This has often accentuated regional disparities in socio-economic development and stressed the necessity for an integrated regional development programme. The first step towards this direction is taking a stock of the regional distribution of infrastructural facilities in India. In this paper an attempt has been made towards this direction. It has been observed that there exists considerable regional disparity in infrastructural facilities in India, not only among the states, but within states also. It is also noted that the relative hierarchy has remained quite sticky over time. Thus, the situation is far from comfortable and this issue is to be taken up seriously to keep our economy on track.
2003-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4779/1/MPRA_paper_4779.pdf
Majumder, Rajarshi (2003): Infrastructural Facilities in India: District Level Availability Index. Published in: Indian Journal of Regional Science , Vol. Vol. 3, No. No. 2 (December 2003)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4814
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4814/
INFRASTRUCTURE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
Majumder, Rajarshi
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite indices of development and infrastructural availability. Significant association between infrastructural and development levels of regions is observed, though the magnitude has declined in recent years. This association is different for regions at different stages of development. The findings suggest that identification of specific requirements of different regions, benefit-cost analysis, followed by infrastructural expansion are major planks of balanced regional development.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4814/1/MPRA_paper_4814.pdf
Majumder, Rajarshi (2004): INFRASTRUCTURE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4818
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4818/
India’s Development Experience - A Regional Analysis: An essay in honour of Prof. Ashok Mathur
Majumder, Rajarshi
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
Wide regional variation has been a major characteristic of development experience in India. In the present study, the multidimensional facet of development is sought to be reflected through composite indices of development. It deals with the development trends exhibited at the National as well as Regional level during the period 1971-1995 with special focus on regional disparity in development levels. Considerable variation in the levels of development - both across states and also within each state is perceived. The disparity seems to be widening over time, specially in the post-reform period. Providing adequate infrastructural facilities, shift from Central Planning to Multilevel Planning, and breaking the myth of trade-off between growth and equity are some of the emerging policy suggestions.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4818/1/MPRA_paper_4818.pdf
Majumder, Rajarshi (2002): India’s Development Experience - A Regional Analysis: An essay in honour of Prof. Ashok Mathur. Published in: Industrialization, Economic Reforms and Regional Development: Essays in honour of Professor Ashok Mathur, (eds) Prof. S. K. Thorat et al, Shipra Publications, New Delhi (2005) (2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4820
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4820/
Infrastructure and Development Interlinkage in West Bengal: A VAR Analysis
Majumder, Rajarshi
Mukherjee, Dipa
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
C32 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes ; State Space Models
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
Theoretical propositions proclaim that the association between Infrastructure Availability and Development of a region is quite strong and runs from the former to the latter. Empirical studies are however, inconclusive. While few researchers have concluded that the impact of infrastructure on development levels, though positive, is not significant, equally large numbers of studies claim that infrastructure explains a substantial part of development levels. In this paper the association between infrastructural availability and development for the West Bengal economy is explored using a multidimensional approach and a time series study. It is observed that both developmental and infrastructural indices have shown a continuously rising trend during 1971-2001. The causation seems to be stronger from infrastructure to development. The long run relationships suggest strong positive impact of infrastructural availability on development levels. Different facets of infrastructure seem to have different impacts on different dimensions of development. A segmented policy aiming at specific sectors need to be adopted, with the greatest importance being attached to those infrastructural indicators that have highest total impact and strongest 'linkages' across sectors. Only this can sustain the development 'push' generated in West Bengal. Otherwise, the superstructure will have only a weak base and will come crashing down any day.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4820/1/MPRA_paper_4820.pdf
Majumder, Rajarshi and Mukherjee, Dipa (2005): Infrastructure and Development Interlinkage in West Bengal: A VAR Analysis. Published in: Artha-Niti , Vol. III, No. 1 & 2 (2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4866
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4866/
Informal Manufacturing Sector in India: Pre and Post Reform Growth Dynamics
Mukherjee, Dipa
J01 - Labor Economics: General
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
J23 - Labor Demand
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
L60 - General
The informal manufacturing sector (IMS) in India has been a major part of the economy. Whether its growth is due to entry of people in distress, or whether it is a vibrant and growth oriented sector is debatable. In this paper, the growth dynamics of IMS in India over the period 1984 to 2000 is explored with special reference to the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) and plausible factors determining the growth pattern are sought to be identified. This growth is observed to be neither smooth nor uniform. The IMS cannot be labelled either a distress driven sink or a dynamic alternative economic avenue in blanket term as existence of both the segments are detected. While sustainability of the distress driven segment is questionable, the dynamic segment is likely to act as the engine of future growth. Distinctly different sets of policies are recommended for the two different segments of IMS.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4866/1/MPRA_paper_4866.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2004): Informal Manufacturing Sector in India: Pre and Post Reform Growth Dynamics. Published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics , Vol. 47, No. 2 (2004)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4871
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4871/
Women's Education in India: Trends, Interlinkages and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa
I21 - Analysis of Education
H52 - Government Expenditures and Education
I20 - General
I22 - Educational Finance ; Financial Aid
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
P36 - Consumer Economics ; Health ; Education and Training ; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
I28 - Government Policy
Education is the basic requirement and the 'Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is built up. This paper tries to analyse the trends, patterns and interacting factors affecting the quantitative and qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years with a special focus on Women's education. It is observed that complete Literacy has not been achieved and this has far reaching socio-economic impacts. Enrolments in schools have improved substantially in recent years but the Retention rates are poor, and only a fraction of enrolled students completes even the Primary classes. Completion of Middle and Secondary levels are still lower. Substantial Gender-bias in both access to, and completion of education is a major cause of concern. Wide regional variation exists even within this sub-standard performance of the Basic Education system. While few states have performed moderately, others have done abysmally, and continue to do so. Factors like poverty, presence of a wide child-labour market, absence of assured employment after schooling, and infrastructural problems are identified as responsible for the ills plaguing the elementary education system in India. Providing incentives for attending schools, making the schooling process attractive to the children, streamlining the middle and high school curriculum to make it more vocational and job-oriented, and providing better infrastructure for the schools are some of the policies likely to improve the scenario.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4871/1/MPRA_paper_4871.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2005): Women's Education in India: Trends, Interlinkages and Policy Issues. Published in: Women’s Education and Development, (ed) JBG Tilak, Gyan Books, New Delhi, 2007 (2007)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5435
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5435/
Office Space Supply Restrictions in Britain: The Political Economy of Market Revenge
Cheshire, Paul
Hilber, Christian A. L.
H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
Office space in Britain is the most expensive in the world and regulatory constraints are the obvious explanation. We estimate the ‘regulatory tax’ for 14 British office locations from 1961 to 2005. These are orders of magnitude greater than estimates for Manhattan condominiums or office space in continental Europe. Exploiting the panel data, we provide strong support for our hypothesis that the regulatory tax varies according to whether an area is controlled by business interests or residents. Our results imply that the cost of the 1990 change converting commercial property taxes from a local to a national basis – transparently removing any fiscal incentive to permit local development – exceeded any plausible rise in local property taxes.
2007-04-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5435/1/MPRA_paper_5435.pdf
Cheshire, Paul and Hilber, Christian A. L. (2007): Office Space Supply Restrictions in Britain: The Political Economy of Market Revenge.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5436
2019-09-26T20:07:02Z
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Die UEMOA und die CFA-Zone: Eine neue Kooperations-Kultur im frankophonen Afrika?
Kohnert, Dirk
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
O23 - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
F15 - Economic Integration
E26 - Informal Economy ; Underground Economy
P25 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
N97 - Africa ; Oceania
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
The CFA-zone is basically composed of two sub-zones, characterised by significant structural economic and political differences within and between its member countries: the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU/UEMOA) and the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (EMCCA/CEMAC). The growing structural divergences between UEMOA and CEMAC have been intensified by the recent development of world oil markets, booming production in Equatorial Guinea and the arrival of Chad in the club of oil producers. Nevertheless the CFA-zone in general, and the UEMOA in particular, have been considered as model case for economic and monetary integration in Africa. Yet, neither of these sub-zones meets the classical criteria of the Optimum Currency Area (OCA). In contrast, they show a low degree of diversification of production and exports, low factor mobility (except of labour in some countries) and price and wage flexibility, different levels of infrastructure and of inflation, low intra-regional trade and a strong exposure to asymmetrical external shocks (e.g. violent political conflicts, different terms of trade development for oil- and agricultural exports). The rules of the informal sector, which are more important in structuring the CFA-zone than the institutions and policies of the formal economic sector, including its monetary institutions. For decades, prices of French imports were overpriced, due to protection by tied aid and other political and cultural non-tariff barriers. The cost of this rent-seeking was carried not only by the French Treasury, who guarantees the peg, but by the French and EU-taxpayers, who financed budgetary bail-outs and development aid, and finally by the poorer member countries and social strata (cf. the free-rider thesis). This article analyses the aims and structures of the WEAMU and its future development prospects.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5436/1/MPRA_paper_5436.pdf
Kohnert, Dirk (2005): Die UEMOA und die CFA-Zone: Eine neue Kooperations-Kultur im frankophonen Afrika? Published in: Schriften des Deutschen Übersee-Instituts, Hamburg No. Nr. 65 (2005): pp. 115-136.
de
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5903
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5903/
ISSUING POLICIES IN CURRENCIES DENOMINATED IN EUROS AND EUROCENTS
Novak, Branko
Matić, Branko
Stjepanović, Slobodanka
G1 - General Financial Markets
F4 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
R1 - General Regional Economics
O5 - Economywide Country Studies
N2 - Financial Markets and Institutions
G2 - Financial Institutions and Services
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
E4 - Money and Interest Rates
E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
P44 - National Income, Product, and Expenditure ; Money ; Inflation
N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics ; Industrial Structure ; Growth ; Fluctuations
R3 - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location
P45 - International Trade, Finance, Investment, and Aid
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy
F3 - International Finance
E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt
Globalization and strengthening of integration processes have, among other things, also influenced some solutions relating to monetary sovereignty of particular countries. A great number of transition countries as well as some other underdeveloped countries are facing both inefficiency in their real sectors and problems in their financial sectors. This primarily refers to the instability of the exchange rate of their national currencies, frequent and high devaluations, mistrust of the users in domestic currency, inflation, and the like. Under such circumstances, some countries decide to give up their monetary sovereignty. Prior to such a decision, it is certainly essential to find answers to the following four key questions: a) what does the country win and what does it lose, b) what are the expenses of such activity and for whom is such change acceptable, and c) which form of abandoning monetary sovereignty should be chosen?
Problems can also be significant regarding the possibility that the phases of economic development do not match. Hence, the measures of monetary policy adjusted to the economic cycles of the country whose currency has been chosen as reserve currency need not correspond with the phase of development of the economy in the country using that currency.
In the case of Euro as the legal means of payment, the production of Euro coins will begin two years before they are officially put into circulation. In that period (of two years), each year the appropriate quantity of coins will be produced, with a value structure allowing normal functioning of the monetary market in the moment when Euros are put into circulation, which is very important in currency conversion.
With respect to the long Croatian monetary history, but also to the recent issuing activity in the segment of circulation coinage, commemorative circulation coinage and numismatic coinage, all these activities should continue in the future as well.
Commemorative coins are, as a rule, identical to regular circulation coins in all details, including the material of which they are made, with differences only in some details (indicating the occasion on which the coins are issued)or in their value in comparison to circulation coinage. At the moment, such coins are accepted as exclusive legal means of payment but only in the country that has issued them. Correspondingly, the amount of this money is determined by the ECB in keeping with its issuing policy. This money is a part of the monetary mass of the issuing country.
Issuing policy of the EU member countries that have accepted the common currency and those countries that are not EU members but have their legal currency denominated in Euros regardless of the sort of coinage indicate:
- the possibility to diversify the offer of all sorts of coinage following the said criteria, or introducing new criteria for their differentiation or their combinations,
- currency denominated in Euros and Eurocents in each issuing country becomes, in a large part, the object of interest and collecting in other countries with the currency of the same name (and with one common/same side of the coins – reverse) because these are the coins with at least one common characteristic.
- The selection of motifs at the national side of the coins (head) can itself be the reason for choosing this currency as the object of collecting, or it can become an additional reason for collecting in combination with the above section.
- Collecting of these coins will in the future certainly be a part of a much wider process, so that later it will be very difficult if not impossible to secure certain coins at the quality level of coinage that have not been in circulation.-Despite the short issuing activity relating to the currency denominated in Euros and Eurocents, the trends in this field so far strongly suggest some regularity, such as:
- There is strong interest for circulation coins of Euros and Eurocents as objects of collecting even among people whose motivation is not primarily numismatic. Even the most optimistic expectations regarding the new common currency have been absolutely surpassed (not only in the countries that have introduced Euro as their currency, but much wider).
- As soon as Euros and Eurocents have appeared in circulation, a part of these coins were hoarded and became objects of trade at the numismatic market reaching very high prices. The object of collection has namely become much wider because in addition to national reasons for collecting, there are now other motives as well, since the Euro and Eurocent coins have one side (reverse) in common.
- Speculative reasons for treasuring up these coins result from the above mentioned grounds but also from the fact that the beginning of circulation of these coins provides the opportunity to right at the start secure a certain quantity of the coins satisfying strict numismatic standards regarding the state of these coins (preferred quality is that of non-circulated coins).
- Issuing commemorative circulation coins and numismatic coins additionally point at great interest for these monetary forms significantly broadening the field of numismatic interest. Croatia should therefore quickly design its own issuing policy in the segments of circulation and commemorative circulation coins, and especially in the segment of commemorative circulation coins and commemorative coins.
2003
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5903/1/MPRA_paper_5903.pdf
Novak, Branko and Matić, Branko and Stjepanović, Slobodanka (2003): ISSUING POLICIES IN CURRENCIES DENOMINATED IN EUROS AND EUROCENTS. Published in: ICES 2003, From Transition to Development: Globalisation and Political Economy of Evelopment in Transition Economies. (2004): pp. 911-923.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6118
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6118/
Open Space Purchases, House Prices, and the Tax Base
Donald, Vandegrift
Michael, Lahr
H4 - Publicly Provided Goods
H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
R51 - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
This paper examines the effect of public acquisitions of open space on house prices and the municipal tax base. While a series of studies show that open space acquisitions raise values of nearby properties, no research to date appears to focus upon the effect of open space acquisitions upon local tax base. Existing studies focus on the effect of open space acreage on house prices. We examine the effect of open space expenditures on house prices at the municipal level. We find that a one-dollar increase in open space expenditures per housing unit is associated with average house prices that are about $13 higher and with a tax base that is about $15 lower per acre. Open space expenditures per housing unit also show a consistent positive effect on the percentage change in house prices over the period 1995-2000. However, we find no statistically significant effect from open space expenditures on the percentage change in the tax base over the period 1995-2000. Local funding (rather than state funding) for open space has a smaller impact on house prices but the effect is significant only in some specifications. Despite the negative effect of open space purchases on the tax base, we find that higher open space expenditures are associated with lower tax rates. In addition, we find that while higher tax rates are associated with a lower tax base, a larger tax base does depress tax rates. The percentage change in the general property tax rate over the period 1995-2000 shows a significant negative effect on the percentage change in the tax base per acre over the period.
2007-09-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6118/1/MPRA_paper_6118.pdf
Donald, Vandegrift and Michael, Lahr (2007): Open Space Purchases, House Prices, and the Tax Base.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6145
2019-10-01T23:25:56Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6145/
Factors Affecting Residential Property Values in a Small Historic Canadian University Town
Janmaat, John A
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
R31 - Housing Supply and Markets
R21 - Housing Demand
The town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia is a small historic community, economically dominated by Acadia University. It is located on the north slope of a ridge, affording views of the Minas Basin, at the eastern end of the Bay of Fundy. The upper boundary of the town is a major provincial highway. A set of sound level observations was used to generate average and peak sound level profiles for the town. Average and peak sound level, as well as presence of a view were included in a hedonic regression of property values. View and average sound level were not statistically related to home price. However, peak sound level is priced, with a one decibel increase reducing the average house price by about two percent. Beyond conventional variables such as age and living space, the zoning classification of the property was found to be highly significant, with homes zoned for single family residential only commanding the highest price. Given the high population of student tenants in Wolfville, tenants unlikely to live in areas zoned single family residential, these results suggests that rental externalities - either due to student tenants or landlord practices - are having a strong negative impact on property values.
2007-01-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6145/3/MPRA_paper_6145.pdf
Janmaat, John A (2007): Factors Affecting Residential Property Values in a Small Historic Canadian University Town.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6147
2019-09-27T01:16:45Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6147/
Stakeholder Engagement in Land Development Decisions: A Waste of Effort?
Janmaat, Johannus A.
Q24 - Land
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
R14 - Land Use Patterns
Q25 - Water
Abstract Currently, management devolution and engagement of local stakeholders - expected to have better information - is seen as key to effective environmental management. Often, the absence of clear property rights and/or supporting market institutions leaves management decisions to a political process. Where undeveloped land provides a public good, when to halt further development is modelled as a repeated lobbying contest between industry and households. Lobbying effort affects the continuation probability. Depending on how stakeholders are engaged, there may be little impact on final outcomes, or a lobbying war can be stimulated. Overall welfare is seldom enhanced.
2007-12-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6147/1/MPRA_paper_6147.pdf
Janmaat, Johannus A. (2007): Stakeholder Engagement in Land Development Decisions: A Waste of Effort?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6572
2019-09-28T15:46:35Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6572/
The territorial dimension of the Common Agricultural and Rural Development policy (CAP) and its relation to cohesion objectives
Dax, Thomas
Hovorka, Gerhard
Q01 - Sustainable Development
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
An increasing focus on rural development issues has characterised the discussion of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform. This reflects new societal demands for tasks and services provided by agriculture particularly in mountain and less-favoured areas (LFA). The regional distribution of CAP and Rural Development support underpins the argument that the territorial dimension implied by CAP reforms has not yet been taken sufficiently into account. The regional variation in the distribution of the LFA scheme between member states testifies this imbalance and underscores country specific priorities. LFAs will have to prove that they are more than a compensation measure, but already providing a range of multifunctional tasks.
2007-11-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6572/1/MPRA_paper_6572.pdf
Dax, Thomas and Hovorka, Gerhard (2007): The territorial dimension of the Common Agricultural and Rural Development policy (CAP) and its relation to cohesion objectives. Published in: No. Less Favoured Areas for Agriculture and Rural Areas (8 November 2007): pp. 20-32.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6862
2019-10-04T05:03:45Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6862/
Impacto do desinvestimento no mercado local de emprego: o caso de uma unidade da indústria metalomecânica
Moniz, António
Gomes, Cláudia
J08 - Labor Economics Policies
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
A14 - Sociology of Economics
This paper is a draft contribution for a definition of the concept of divestment. This topic is still very influenced by definitions from the fields of economics or management. Thus, from a group of definitions and approaches developed by different authors we try to elaborate on this divestment concept, searching for indicators and variables related to this practice. The founded indicators allow us to identify the main consequences and the potential social impacts due to divestment situations. Also we try to develop a methodology of research for analysis and impact framework that come from divestment action of companies.
2003-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6862/1/MPRA_paper_6862.pdf
Moniz, António and Gomes, Cláudia (2003): Impacto do desinvestimento no mercado local de emprego: o caso de uma unidade da indústria metalomecânica.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7217
2019-09-28T22:33:07Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7217/
Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: the Italian Case
Vittorio, Daniele
Ugo, Marani
R30 - General
F23 - Multinational Firms ; International Business
R59 - Other
The paper estimates the effects of organized crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces in the period 2004-06. The presence of organized crime at a provincial level is quantified through several indicators, based on data for different kinds of crimes: extortion; association for criminal purposes, including mafia (Art. 416 and 416 bis of the Italian Penal Code); attacks; arson. Several control variables are used, included a proxy for (financial) investment incentives provided by public sectors. Estimation suggests that FDI inflows are influenced by different variables. Our results show that the extent of extortion and the number of persons denounced for "criminal association" are significantly and negatively correlated with FDI inflows. Finally, our analysis suggests the presence of organized crime is a strong disincentive for foreign investors, particularly in the less developed Italian provinces.
2008-02-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7217/1/MPRA_paper_7217.pdf
Vittorio, Daniele and Ugo, Marani (2008): Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: the Italian Case.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8888
2019-09-27T16:54:33Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8888/
What Is “Open”? An Economic Analysis of Open Institutions
Deng, Feng
D23 - Organizational Behavior ; Transaction Costs ; Property Rights
D71 - Social Choice ; Clubs ; Committees ; Associations
H41 - Public Goods
L31 - Nonprofit Institutions ; NGOs ; Social Entrepreneurship
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure
By examining several different types of open institutions including open source software, open science, open square and (open) urban planning, this paper presents a general analysis of open institutional structure that is complementary to traditional proprietary mode. We argue that open institutions, in whatever forms, are essentially about decentralized production of a collective good (or “commons”) that relies on voluntary collaboration of highly variable human-related input. In addition to providing a general definition of open institutional structure, we submit there are two necessary conditions for open institutions. The first is the integration of consumers into production. The second condition is that the efficiency gain from “production” commons is the objective and the tragedy of anticommons becomes a serious problem. In this sense, open institutions represent a positive approach toward externality and uncertainty.
2008-01-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8888/1/MPRA_paper_8888.pdf
Deng, Feng (2008): What Is “Open”? An Economic Analysis of Open Institutions.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8917
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8917/
企业“扎堆”、技术升级与经济绩效 ——对中国开发区产业集聚的性质及其变迁的实证分析
Zheng, Jianghuai
Gao, Yanyan
Hu, Xiaowen
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R30 - General
R50 - General
O53 - Asia including Middle East
Based on micro-firm data of development zones in Jiangsu Province along the Yangtze River, the effects of local factors special to development zones and of technology promotion on firm’s performance are tested, from which we try to illustrate the nature and dynamics of industrial clusters built on development zones. The results show that the primary reasons firms locate into development zones are not clustering benefits in general meaning brought by interactions among firms locally concentrated, but are the attraction of “policy rents” and the scale economy of infrastructure brought by government behaviors. Once located in the zone, the firm is doom to interact with local government as well as industry-related factors, and the clustering effects may emerge. Thus, the key to keep development zones’ competition sustainable, when governments’ bidding wars and policy adjustment fade away “policy rents” and scale economy of infrastructure, is to cultivate clustering effects.
2008-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8917/1/MPRA_paper_8917.pdf
Zheng, Jianghuai and Gao, Yanyan and Hu, Xiaowen (2008): 企业“扎堆”、技术升级与经济绩效 ——对中国开发区产业集聚的性质及其变迁的实证分析.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9292
2019-10-01T10:23:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9292/
State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.
Ahmad, Sayed Javed
A39 - Other
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
J18 - Public Policy
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
G38 - Government Policy and Regulation
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
I28 - Government Policy
This paper discusses the problems and issues on the political failures in Bangladesh as well as identifies some possible solutions. The approach here is analytical mostly reviewing current news, reports and other related materials. A comparative study is also done between the present and proposed system to get a quick glimpse on the overall situation. The idea here is to seek out reasonable and practical solutions that would yield better result for Bangladesh and bring about positive changes in the political scenario that would allow the country to move forward as a successful and dignified nation. I’ve kept the scope of this paper limited to political party, elections and governance.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9292/1/MPRA_paper_9292.pdf
Ahmad, Sayed Javed (2008): State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9499
2019-09-26T09:47:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9499/
Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael
Khan, Haider
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
A1 - General Economics
O5 - Economywide Country Studies
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O1 - Economic Development
R0 - General
O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights
J0 - General
C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
Q1 - Agriculture
O55 - Africa
J60 - General
C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models ; Multiple Variables
J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
J4 - Particular Labor Markets
O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71% of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. But even though the largest share of their population lives in rural areas and directly or indirectly derives their livelihoods from agriculture, a rapidly increasing share of the population migrates to urban centers in search for employment opportunities outside agriculture in industrial enterprises or the services sector.
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the causes and consequences -- in particular, the policy implications -- of the ongoing urbanization in the African LDCs. It is found that the employment opportunities in either rural or the urban sector are not growing adequately. This paper attempts to analyze the emerging trends and patterns of urbanization in the African LDCs within a dynamic dual-dual framework with a strong emphasis on rural-urban migration and the informal sectors. The analysis pinpoints, among other things, the need to build up productive capacities in order to create adequate employment and incomes for the rapidly growing population---particularly in the urban areas. The development of productive capacities, which is a precondition for the creation of productive employment opportunities, is a central element of viable poverty reduction strategy for Bangladesh as well. Without significant poverty reduction it is impossible to think of viable urbanization on the basis of sustainable development criteria in this group of very African countries. The donors, especially the OECD/ DAC countries, should provide the necessary financial backing for such a sustainable and equitable development strategy for Africa. It is necessary to reverse the trends in aid, and to provide a much larger share of aid for productive sector development, including the development of rural and urban areas, and the development of agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in line with the perspective of the dual-dual model. Although urban centers mostly host non-agricultural industries, sustainable urbanization also strongly depends on what happens in the agricultural sectors. Productive employment opportunities in rural areas are important in order to combat an unsustainable migration from rural areas to urban centers, and productive employment opportunities in urban centers are essential to absorb the rapidly increasing labor force in the non-agricultural sector.
2008-07-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9499/1/MPRA_paper_9499.pdf
Herrmann, Michael and Khan, Haider (2008): Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9518
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Trends in Health Status and Infrastructural Support in Tamil Nadu
Dhas, Albert Christopher
Helen, Mary Jacqueline
H51 - Government Expenditures and Health
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
This paper aimed at examining the health status in Tamil Nadu and to highlight the major issues on it. The health scenario of Tamil Nadu was examined, based on certain selected health indicators and the extent of health infrastructure available in the state and its utilisation were also discussed
The study observed that there is a reduction in the vital statistics such as birth rate, death rate and infant mortality rate and an increase in the life expectancy at birth in Tamil Nadu during the last three decades. These trends indicated the developments in the health status of the people and the steady progress in the health indicators. The study argued that though the demographic indicators and vital statistics indicate very high of Tamil Nadu in terms of health performance, there are several areas in which improvements are possible.
To conclude, Tamil Nadu seems to have performed better compared to All India average in demographic and several health indicators. However, Tamil Nadu is capable of much higher levels of achievements with its knowledge base, administrative and institutional strength and its growth potentials.
2008-07-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9518/1/MPRA_paper_9518.pdf
Dhas, Albert Christopher and Helen, Mary Jacqueline (2008): Trends in Health Status and Infrastructural Support in Tamil Nadu.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9520
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9520/
Why The Green Revolution Was Short Run Phenomena In The Development Process Of Pakistan: A Lesson For Future
Ahmad, Imtiaz
Shah, Syed Akhter Hussain
Zahid, Muhammad Sarwar
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
Agriculture is the most important sector of Pakistan’s economy. It provides food and fibre, source of scarce foreign exchange earning and a market for industrial goods. In 1960s various policy measures were taken for Agriculture development. The research tries to examine various issues related to this sector. Focus of the research, however, is to analyze the role of Green
Revolution in the development process of Pakistan and its short and long term impact on the economy. The paper analyzes weaknesses due to which the Green Revolution remained a shortterm phenomena. The contributing factors of Green Revolution and other supporting institutions are also discussed. The findings of this study show that the Green Revolution increased agriculture production and employment level. It also had impact on distribution of
income and the social and political environment in the country. However, there were certain policy gaps due to which the impact of Green Revolution remained a short-term phenomena.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9520/1/MPRA_paper_9520.pdf
Ahmad, Imtiaz and Shah, Syed Akhter Hussain and Zahid, Muhammad Sarwar (2004): Why The Green Revolution Was Short Run Phenomena In The Development Process Of Pakistan: A Lesson For Future. Published in: Journal of Rural Development & Administration , Vol. 4, No. 35 : pp. 89-104.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9598
2019-09-28T04:32:14Z
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Work-Life Reconciliation Policies From Well-Being To Development: Rethinking EU Gender Mainstreaming
Garofalo, M.R.
Marra, M
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
Across the European Union (EU), gender policies are cross-cutting initiatives incorporated within the major axes of regional operational programs, and specifically, within active labor-market, local development and inclusion policies. This is the so-called gender mainstreaming across EU Structural Funds, calling for increasing policy instruments integration. The aim of this paper is to understand if and how to improve women’s well-being and subsequently participation in collective action through reconciliation policies. These measures aim to allow women and men to choose how they can reconcile family care, paid work, career advancement, and leisure. The idea is that such a choice implies a time allocation pattern, which is not exclusively determined by market mechanisms and/or policy measures, but also by cultural trajectories, moral values, intrinsic motivations and rules (Folbre, Nelson 2002; North, 2005; Witt 2003), varying across regions and within groups. Furthermore, the outcomes of this choice are not completely internalized as individual well-being but they can also create positive externalities. First, this paper reconstructs reconciliation policies and their governance structures across less-developed regions in Italy (so-called EU Objective 1 areas) within the EU programming phase 2000-2006. Drawing upon this reconstruction, out analysis seeks to account for differences in both contextual conditions and individual characteristics, which, in turn, shape regional development processes. Second, the paper focuses on the design of conciliation policies to unveil what underlying microeconomic premises explain the expected beneficiaries’ behavioural change. Departing from the inadequacy of standard economics, whereby work-life reconciliation would be reduced to a unique choice pattern at the individual level, the paper examines those factors of subjective identities and contextual characteristics that actually affect work-life reconciliation choices, and by this way they can have a development impact (Bowles 1998, Ray, 2000, Sen 1999). In fact, the traditional public choice approach to gender policy may not only perpetuate a male-dominated structure of socioeconomic relations but it may also keep the economy working at a less efficient level. In other words, reconciliation policies may end up reinforcing a path dependent equilibrium of low efficiency, accentuating institutional, economic, social, and cultural traps (Bowles, Durlauf and Hoff 2006). By contrast, our idea is that reconciliation policies can work as development policies as long as they alter current power structures and enhance women capabilities. Building upon this critical review of the existing gender policy framework, we put forward a cognitive framework for work-life reconciliation as a driving force to development.
2007-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9598/1/MPRA_paper_9598.pdf
Garofalo, M.R. and Marra, M (2007): Work-Life Reconciliation Policies From Well-Being To Development: Rethinking EU Gender Mainstreaming.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9830
2019-10-08T16:33:08Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9830/
Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data
Hotchkiss, Julie L.
Pitts, M. Melinda
Robertson, John
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
This article uses matched employer-employee data for the State of Georgia to examine workers' earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector's employment boom of the mid-1990's and bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for pre-boom individual characteristics, transitioning out of the IT sector to a non-IT industry generally resulted in a large wage penalty. However, IT service workers who transitioned to a non-IT industry still fared better than workers who took a non-IT employment path. For IT manufacturing workers, there is no benefit to having been touched by technology, likely because of the nontransferability of manufacturing experience to other industries.
2006-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9830/1/MPRA_paper_9830.pdf
Hotchkiss, Julie L. and Pitts, M. Melinda and Robertson, John (2006): Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data. Published in: Southern Economic Journal , Vol. 73, No. 2 (October 2006): pp. 342-361.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10042
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El enfoque de la nueva ruralidad como eje de las políticas publicas. ¿Qué podemos esperar?
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
O54 - Latin America ; Caribbean
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
N56 - Latin America ; Caribbean
Recognizing that poverty in the fields of Latin America has not been overcome with the model of agribusiness and agro-exporting, the paradigm of new rurality emerges as a response to meet the demands of the rural areas. This vision is now the basis of rural policies in Latin America and other underdeveloped areas of the world. This document seeks to recover the core elements of this vision in its internal articulation. Then, we will respond to some questions: What can we expect from this paradigm? Can we expect to overcome rural poverty? Which are the merits and limitations of this approach?
Tras reconocer que la pobreza en los campos latinoamericanos no ha sido superada con el modelo de los agronegocios y las agroexportaciones, el paradigma de la nueva ruralidad emerge como respuesta para atender las carencias más sentidas en el medio rural. Esta visión, promovida con afán por instituciones multilaterales y por organismos financieros internacionales, ha pasado a ser el eje central de las políticas de Estado orientadas al campo en América Latina y otras zonas subdesarrolladas del orbe.
Es intención de este documento recuperar los elementos medulares de este paradigma en su articulación interna. Luego de esta síntesis nos abocamos a responder algunas preguntas: ¿Qué podemos esperar de este paradigma trasladado en la práctica a nuestros países, donde impera la condición de subdesarrollo? ¿Cabe esperar de él éxitos importantes en materia de progreso rural local o microrregional? ¿Cuáles son sus méritos y cuáles sus restricciones?
2008-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena (2008): El enfoque de la nueva ruralidad como eje de las políticas publicas. ¿Qué podemos esperar? Published in: Revista Electrónica Zacatecana sobre Población y Sociedad , Vol. Año 8,, No. Número 32 (June 2008): pp. 1-20.
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SOCIOECONOMIC, INSTITUTIONAL & POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: A SUBNATIONAL STUDY OF INDIA, 1993 – 2002
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya
R59 - Other
P59 - Other
We conduct an econometric analysis of socioeconomic, institutional and political factors determining government respect for human rights within India. Using time series cross-sectional data for 28 Indian states for the period 1993 – 2002, we find that internal threat poised by number of social violence events, presence of civil war and riot hit disturbed areas are strongly associated with human rights abuses. Amongst socioeconomic factors, ‘exclusive’ economic growth, ‘uneven’ development, poor social development spending, youth bulges and differential growth rates between minority religious groups explain the likelihood of human rights violations. Capturing power at the state and central level by Hindu national parties’ viz., Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena, further help understand the incidence of human rights violations within India.
2008-08-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10142/1/MPRA_paper_10142.pdf
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya (2008): SOCIOECONOMIC, INSTITUTIONAL & POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: A SUBNATIONAL STUDY OF INDIA, 1993 – 2002.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10156
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Cooperation networks and innovation: A complex system perspective to the analysis and evaluation of a EU regional innovation policy programme
Russo, Margherita
Rossi, Federica
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O38 - Government Policy
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Recent developments in innovation theory and policy have led policymakers to assign particular importance to supporting networks of cooperation among heterogeneous economic
actors, especially in production systems composed of small and medium enterprises.
Such innovative policies call for parallel innovations in policy analysis, monitoring and assessment. Our analysis of a policy experiment aimed at supporting innovation networks in the Italian region of Tuscany intends to address some issues connected with the design, monitoring and evaluation of such interventions. Combining tools from ethnographic
research and social networks analysis, we explore the structural elements of the policy programme, its macroscopic impact on the regional innovation system, and the success of individual networks in attaining their specific objectives. This innovative approach allows us to derive some general methodological suggestions for the design and evaluation of similar programmes.
2008-06-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10156/1/MPRA_paper_10156.pdf
Russo, Margherita and Rossi, Federica (2008): Cooperation networks and innovation: A complex system perspective to the analysis and evaluation of a EU regional innovation policy programme. Forthcoming in: Evaluation. The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. , Vol. 15, No. 1 (January 2009)
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Ways of Thinking and Looking at the Mediterranean City
Pace, Giuseppe
R50 - General
N90 - General, International, or Comparative
R14 - Land Use Patterns
It’s almost a decade that the social science attitude has changed in evaluating the history and reality of the Mediterranean basin geographic area. The decadence of capitalistic modernisation has created a void in social and cultural relationships. A process of cultural legitimisation has been started, focussed on the Mediterranean image and identity, which is pointing out the problem of local cultures’ knowledge and preservation as fundamental elements for planning and management. Searching for a definition of Mediterranean city, not only through geographical or morphological schemes, the paper considers also social, economic and cultural elements, like the borders’ permeability, the supremacy of the “family” on the State and the pervasiveness of the informal economy. Most of these urban realities reveal a “culture of the derogation” and a great rural immigration that give still significance to a classification of resident population, instead of those based on the service users. Moreover, the large Mediterranean urban areas are usually based on a unique centre, rich of economic and human resources, connected to a hinterland poor and degraded, without any kind of identity. On the economic side, the need of entering in the global market leads most of these cities facing the international scale and finding a strong characterisation. On the social side, it could increase the social exclusions with the danger of conflicts. Anyway, every solution must start from the regional scale with public policies, which aim to promote the consensus, exceeding the urban/rural distinctions and stimulating the local community participation.
2002-05-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10511/1/MPRA_paper_10511.pdf
Pace, Giuseppe (2002): Ways of Thinking and Looking at the Mediterranean City.
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INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN ERITREA - ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
Rena, Ravinder
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
G11 - Portfolio Choice ; Investment Decisions
A1 - General Economics
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
The industrial revolution led to the birth of different types of insurance systems. Insurance business emerged and developed in Eritrea during the Italian period. The insurance industry in Eritrea has been huge profits from its inception in 1992. In spite of the consistent profits by the insurance, the Government privatised it recently due the policy and revenue requirements. An attempt is made in this paper to discuss the background of the insurance and it evolution and development. This paper focuses on achievements and challenges of Eritrean insurance industry after independence. The paper attempts to synthesise diverse viewpoints, protect confidentiality and offer insights into the ever-changing insurance environment in Eritrea.
2007-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10762/1/MPRA_paper_10762.pdf
Rena, Ravinder (2007): INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN ERITREA - ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES. Published in: Osmania Journal of International Business Studies , Vol. 2, No. 1 (5 June 2007): pp. 140-146.
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Positive externalities of congestion, human capital, and socio-economic factors: A case study of chronic illness in Japan.
yamamura, eiji
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
I19 - Other
This paper explores, using Japanese panel data for the years 1988-2002, how externalities from congestion and human capital influence deaths caused by chronic illnesses. Major findings through fixed effects 2SLS estimation were as follows: (1) the number of deaths were smaller in more densely-populated areas, and this tendency was more distinct for males; (2) higher human capital correlated with a decreased number of deaths, with the effect being greater in females than in males. These findings suggest that human capital and positive externalities stemming from congestion make a contribution to improving lifestyle, which is affected differently by socio-economic circumstance in males and females.
2008-09-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10833/1/MPRA_paper_10833.pdf
yamamura, eiji (2008): Positive externalities of congestion, human capital, and socio-economic factors: A case study of chronic illness in Japan.
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Reforma da Administração Pública: Antes e Depois da Democracia
Martins, J. Albuquerque
P11 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
G11 - Portfolio Choice ; Investment Decisions
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
H63 - Debt ; Debt Management ; Sovereign Debt
C60 - General
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
L38 - Public Policy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
O16 - Financial Markets ; Saving and Capital Investment ; Corporate Finance and Governance
D61 - Allocative Efficiency ; Cost-Benefit Analysis
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
G28 - Government Policy and Regulation
D00 - General
After the micro politics, the complexity of the “public management”, polity and policies, is the same of the “private management” or the management of the others sectors of the social production reality. The science of management it is not defined by products, functions, sectors and so on, as occurs in the economic as discipline with it focus on finance or bank.
The reasons for the activity of public and the private management are the same: the persons (market). In a post-modernism way and by influence or “imposition” of non-public big organizations, nowadays, we said “objectives”, corporate, agency theory and others best and next steps like new public management.
In this form any drive is valid and, after all, the driver don’t require any content. In that form, we are entering in the world of anaesthetics impressionisms and modernism. The costs, crisis and bankruptcy of that are enormous. Nowadays we know it, but, in fact, we know it since 1960-1980 by project PIMS, MBO, bureaucracy/autocracy and others mechanics budgets accounts.
That idealisticism and arithmetic management, economics, and influent organizations put in market one socio-psychologism and not an objective management. So, by descriptive and evidence mode, we conclude that when it applied in public administration, independently of the regime, the desired reform of the organization –in a strategic line, “society”- not occurs.
2008-03-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Martins, J. Albuquerque (2008): Reforma da Administração Pública: Antes e Depois da Democracia.
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Are Local Economic Development Incentives Promoting Job Growth? An Empirical Case Study
Fuerst, Franz
Mollenkopf, John
E62 - Fiscal Policy
H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
R51 - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
At a time when cities are competing with one another to attract or retain jobs within a globalizing economy, city governments are providing an array of financial incentives to stimulate job growth and retain existing jobs, particularly in high cost locations. This paper provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of datasets on economic development incentives in New York City over the last fifteen years. The evidence on job retention and creation is mixed. Although many companies do not meet their agreed-upon job targets in absolute terms, the evidence suggests that companies receiving subsidies outperform their respective industries in terms of employment growth, that is, the grow more, or decline less. We emphasize that this finding is difficult to interpret, since firms receiving incentives may not be representative of the industry as a whole. In other words, their above-average performance may simply reflect the fact that the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) selects economically promising companies within manufacturing (or other industries) when granting incentives. At the same time, it is also possible that receiving incentives helps these companies to become stronger.
2005-09-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11444/1/MPRA_paper_11444.pdf
Fuerst, Franz and Mollenkopf, John (2005): Are Local Economic Development Incentives Promoting Job Growth? An Empirical Case Study.
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If Alonso was Right: Residual Land Price, Accessibility and Urban Attraction
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.
R42 - Government and Private Investment Analysis ; Road Maintenance ; Transportation Planning
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
This study investigates whether accessibility shapes the attractiveness of residential land as predicted by theory. A spatial hedonic analysis is conducted for the metropolitan area of Berlin, Germany, using a large set of georeferenced property transactions and micro-level data. We find that the nuclei of residential land price and employment density gradients are separated by approx. 10 km, which essentially contradicts theoretical implications. Also, environmental externalities arising from the residential composition or the building structure and density in the neighborhood are more important determinants than access to the city center, which, if at all, impacts negatively on residential land prices. Moreover, a new gravity-based accessibility indicator is employed that incorporates the effective distribution of employment as well as the rapid transit network architecture in order to disentangle the effects of proximity to employment opportunities from a more general urban attraction effect. After controlling for accessibility, we find a negative effect of urban attraction, respectively an effect of urban repulsion, indicating a relatively higher attractiveness of peripheral locations. This effect is partially counterbalanced by the benefits arising from access to employment opportunities that are, although relatively dispersed, more concentrated within downtown areas. In the tension between both forces, the land price gradient tends to be, if at all significant, positive. After all, we conclude that if transport costs are very low, commuting costs lose their role as the most striking determinant of land price. These results are robust to spatial dependency.
2008-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11707/1/MPRA_paper_11707.pdf
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. (2008): If Alonso was Right: Residual Land Price, Accessibility and Urban Attraction.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12089
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Economic analysis of deforestation in Mexico
Barbier, Edward B.
Burgess, J.C.
Q1 - Agriculture
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation
This paper uses panel analyses to estimate relationships for agricultural planted area and beef cattle numbers at the state level in Mexico during the periods 1970-85, in order to determine the main factors affecting forest land conversion. Of the key policy variables, maize and fertilizer prices appear to be the main influences on the expansion of planted area, whereas beef prices and credit disbursement influence cattle numbers. Population growth also affects both livestock and agricultural activities, and income per capita is positively correlated with cattle expansion. These estimated relationships are used to examine the effects both of agricultural and livestock sectoral policy changes and of trade liberalization in Mexico resulting from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). To avoid any unintended impacts of NAFTA on Deforestation, it may be necessary for Mexico to make complementary investments in Land improvements, especially for existing cultivation on rain fed land.
1996
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12089/1/MPRA_paper_12089.pdf
Barbier, Edward B. and Burgess, J.C. (1996): Economic analysis of deforestation in Mexico. Published in: Environment and Development Economics , Vol. 1, No. 2 (1996): pp. 203-240.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12196
2019-09-29T14:11:49Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12196/
Analyse des conditions de l'habitat en Tunisie: une approche par la statistique multivariée
Filali, Radhouane
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
This paper discusses housing condition in Tunisia in the late 1990s, using a housing condition indicator that relies on less arbitrary weights. Evidences from household survey data indicate that despite the substantial improvement of tunisian's housing condition between 1994 and 2001, great disparities between urban and rural areas and between regions prevail. Moreover, it is shown that public authorities should stimulate the supply of social housing and local services in order to reduce housing poverty and disparities.
2008-06-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12196/1/MPRA_paper_12196.pdf
Filali, Radhouane (2008): Analyse des conditions de l'habitat en Tunisie: une approche par la statistique multivariée.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12353
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12353/
The Role of Clusters in the Regional Policy of the Czech Republic
Skokan, Karel
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Regional, industry, innovative and knowledge-based clusters have become popular and important policy tools to boost economic development and competitiveness at regional level. The expectations of their role is still growing as it can be seen in the statements of official documents of European Union concerning social and economic cohesion or competitiveness and innovation programmes and also in many
national and regional strategic documents of member states. The cluster development dilemma appeared in many CEE countries. On the one hand clusters are business or industry driven, on the other hand the cluster initiatives for starting cluster-based policies are mostly public sector
driven. The public sector has in the past often tried to develop clusters directly. Now it appears that its role may prove more effective in providing the infrastructure on which clusters can grow. The Czech Republic adopted the comprehensive approach to cluster-based policies which are incorporated in different national and regional strategies focused not only to regional development but to business and innovation support as well. The analysis of cluster-based interventions in different types of strategic documents is presented in the paper.
2007-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12353/1/MPRA_paper_12353.pdf
Skokan, Karel (2007): The Role of Clusters in the Regional Policy of the Czech Republic. Published in: Conference Proceedings. 2nd Central European Conference in Regional Science (10 October 2007): pp. 955-962.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12371
2019-09-29T07:01:20Z
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Engineering Cluster in Moravia Silesia Region
Skokan, Karel
R10 - General
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Moravia Silesia region of the Czech Republic passes through deep restructuring of traditional industries accompanied by huge unemployment. Clustering seems to be one of the ways out of current transformation in the region´s development. After the introduction to the cluster theory a methodology of cluster research in the region is explained and the regional engineering cluster is presented including its development strategy.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12371/1/MPRA_paper_12371.pdf
Skokan, Karel (2002): Engineering Cluster in Moravia Silesia Region. Published in: Econ ´02 , Vol. 9, No. 1 (2002): pp. 180-187.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12372
2019-10-03T22:13:51Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12372/
Industry Clusters v regionálním rozvoji
Skokan, Karel
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
R38 - Government Policy
The concept of „Industry Clusters“ has become very popular in the vocabulary of regional planners and researchers throughout the world in the last decade, namely in the United States, European Union and generally in OECD countries. However it has been not known in the Czech Republic yet. The paper aims to introduce the industry cluster concept and definition, the ways of cluster identification, the factors affecting cluster development and their contribution to regional development policies. The example of preliminary industry cluster analysis in Moravia Silesia region in the Czech Republic is presented in the conclusion and the potential clusters are identified.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12372/1/MPRA_paper_12372.pdf
Skokan, Karel (2002): Industry Clusters v regionálním rozvoji. Published in: Ekonomická revue, VSB-TU Ostrava , Vol. 5, No. 2 (2002): pp. 50-60.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12373
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Financing cluster initiatives
Skokan, Karel
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O38 - Government Policy
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
In the last two decades hundreds of cluster initiatives have been launched involving virtually all regions of the world and their number is growing. Cluster initiatives are viewed as conscious actions taken by various actors to create or strengthen clusters. There are multiple relevant actors, and they may relate to each other in different ways. Governments and other public authorities are known to be responsible for most cluster initiatives, although there is a marked geographical variation. At the end of the 1990s, industrial and regional policy increasingly concentrated on stimulating clusters and clustering processes in many EU member states using different forms of support. The paper describes the rationale for regional cluster initiatives in general and presents different approaches of countries to the financing the specific programmes for cluster development. Although public funds should not be viewed as systematic aid and should comply with the State aid regulations, experts recognise that they are often needed to support start-up projects, networking, information, research, education, and specialised infrastructure. At the end of paper the Czech way to financing cluster initiatives is presented based on government programme with the financial contribution of EU Structural Funds.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12373/1/MPRA_paper_12373.pdf
Skokan, Karel (2005): Financing cluster initiatives. Published in: ECON ´05 , Vol. 12, No. 1 (2005): pp. 317-324.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12375
2019-09-28T08:36:01Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12375/
Innovative Concepts in the Regional Policy of the Czech Republic
Skokan, Karel
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O38 - Government Policy
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
The new paradigm of regional policy is based more on competitiveness, innovation and internal potential of regions than on balancing regional disparities by public aid only. Innovation policies are being established and implemented at national and regional levels covering relatively a broad range of public initiatives directed towards supporting the innovation activities and stimulating the creation of pro-innovation environment. This is underlined in key EU strategic documents for new planning period 2007-2013 including Community Strategic Guidelines, Competitiveness and Innovation Programme and national development programmes of member countries as well. The paper describes the contemporary approach to regional policy developed in the key strategic documents in the Czech Republic with special focus to regional innovation strategies and innovative clusters and the possible ways of financing from EU Structural funds. The approach is documented in the case study of Moravia Silesia region, former steal heart of the country, which passes through huge structural transformation in the last decade.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12375/1/MPRA_paper_12375.pdf
Skokan, Karel (2006): Innovative Concepts in the Regional Policy of the Czech Republic. Published in: Finansowanie rozwoju regionalnego. Wydawnictwo Wyzszej Szkoly Bankowej w Poznaniu (2007): pp. 301-320.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12379
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Klastry v transformaci regionů - pět let poté
Skokan, Karel
R10 - General
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O25 - Industrial Policy
Five years ago the first theoretical works on industry clusters in regional development appeared in the Czech academic papers and conference proceedings. The research in this field, which was initiated at the Faculty of Economics at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, was followed by other university research centres. The programme Klastry (clusters) announced by CzechInvest, the governmental agency for enterprise and FDI support in the Czech Republic, and financed by EU Structural funds in the period 2004-2006 opened a huge national-wide clustering movement. Several tens of cluster initiatives have been established in all regions by now and the idea of industry clusters has developed into the phase of implementation. This paper reviews and summarizes developments of cluster policies in the Czech Republic at both national and regional levels and presents achievements and a role of clusters in the transformation of traditional industrial region of Moravia and Silesia.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12379/1/MPRA_paper_12379.pdf
Skokan, Karel (2007): Klastry v transformaci regionů - pět let poté. Published in: Ekonomická revue, VSB-TU Ostrava , Vol. 10, No. 2-3 (September 2007): pp. 149-166.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12380
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12380/
Územní soudržnost v Evropě
Skokan, Karel
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Economic and social cohesion is an expression of solidarity between the Member States and regions of the European Union. The aim is balanced development throughout the EU, reducing structural disparities between regions and promoting equal opportunities for all. The new concept of territorial cohesion appeared in official EU documents recently, however it is still in search of a commonly accepted definition. The paper analyses this third dimension of cohesion and presents the contemporary view upon territorial cohesion.
2007-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12380/1/MPRA_paper_12380.pdf
Skokan, Karel (2007): Územní soudržnost v Evropě. Published in: Disputationes Scientificae Universitatis Catholicae in Ružomberok , Vol. 8, No. 1 (2008): pp. 85-95.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12540
2019-09-27T16:52:14Z
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Creating New Regions, Improving Regional Welfare Equality?
Aloysius Gunadi, Brata
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
In concurrent with reformation and decentralization, number of sub-national administrative in Indonesia increase significantly. Existing regions has been splitting to create new regions. As the result, number of municipalities and districts in Indonesia in recent years are more than 450. The creation of new regions has been expected will increase citizens’ welfare in the regions and reduce regional inequality. However, indicative evidences shows negative impacts of this reform such as increase of inefficient administration cost of government, decrease capacity to deliver public services and increase potential for inter-group conflict. All of these indicative evidences will affect the welfare of citizens as seen on the human development indicators. Based on this background, the aim of this article is to analyze the relation of creation of new regions with the evolution of regional welfare inequality. The study employed human development index (HDI) at sub-national level (kota/kabupaten) as the indicator of welfare. The evolution of regional inequality of the HDI is analyzed by comparing coefficient of variation in the HDI from 1996 to 2005. This paper also estimated a preliminary empirical model to assess the impact of pemekaran on the within province inequality. The policy implication of this finding is that pemekaran should be controlled.
2008-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12540/1/MPRA_paper_12540.pdf
Aloysius Gunadi, Brata (2008): Creating New Regions, Improving Regional Welfare Equality?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12768
2019-10-09T00:49:19Z
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Proposal for a measure of regional power in EU15 in the 2007-2013 bargain
Torrisi, Gianpiero
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
This paper presents an analysis with the aim to investigate the EU regional
policy and in particular to consider how it has impacted on national states authority.
The original point of this work consists in constructing an index to rank the power of
regions in each state that consider the total Regional Policy funds allocation in the
sample 2000-2006 and the indicative financial allocation for the sample 2007-2013.
The idea behind this index is that powerful regions will be able to protect their
interests in the allocating process. Thus, we can “measure” the power of regions,
indirectly, by mean of the loss bore by them in the re-negotiating process. At this
purpose it is important to underline that enlargement had as concomitant result that the
regional disparities have doubled, so that the challenge for each region (and each state)
is becoming very strong. Thus, the power of region (where and if it exists) has to
emerge with particular evidence in this context.
In this work I propose an analysis that may be thought as divided into two main
parts. The first one with the aim to provide a synthesis of the main results achieved in
literature about this issue and in particular the debate between Multilevel-Governance
and State Centric literature. In a second part, as I said before, I investigate the empirical
evidence concerning the EU model of governance with particular attention to the EU
regional policy.
The empirical evidence here considered is consistent with some assertion provided
by Multilevel Governance literature.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12768/1/MPRA_paper_12768.pdf
Torrisi, Gianpiero (2007): Proposal for a measure of regional power in EU15 in the 2007-2013 bargain.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12807
2019-09-28T16:32:21Z
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Infrastructure and Regional Development: Interlinkages in India
Majumder, Rajarshi
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite indices of development and infrastructural availability. Significant association between infrastructural and development levels of regions is observed, though the magnitude has declined in recent years. This association is different for regions at different stages of development. The findings suggest that identification of specific requirements of different regions, benefit-cost analysis, followed by infrastructural expansion are major planks of balanced regional development.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12807/1/MPRA_paper_12807.pdf
Majumder, Rajarshi (2005): Infrastructure and Regional Development: Interlinkages in India. Published in: Indian Economic Review , Vol. 40, No. 2 (2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13022
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Research universities and regional high-tech firm start-ups and exit
De Silva, Dakshina G.
McComb, Robert P.
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
If localized knowledge spillovers are present in the university setting, higher rates of both start-ups and/or survival than in the broader economy would be observed in areas that are geographically proximate to the university. Using a fully-disclosed Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for Texas for the years 1999:3-2006:2, this paper analyzes start-ups and exit rates for high-tech firms in Texas. We find that there is evidence that the presence of a research institution will affect the likelihood of technology start-ups. However, results suggest that geographic proximity to knowledge centers does not reduce hazard rates.
2009-01-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13022/1/MPRA_paper_13022.pdf
De Silva, Dakshina G. and McComb, Robert P. (2009): Research universities and regional high-tech firm start-ups and exit.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13173
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I sistemi locali del Lavoro in Italia: Aspetti teorici ed empirici
Coppola, Gianluigi
Mazzotta, Fernanda
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure
H32 - Firm
The Local Labour systems are a territorial subdivision useful for the local development. In this Research Report we deal with the theoretical, statistical and methodological aspects in order to collect all those elements that are useful to understand the potentiality represented by the local system. The Report includes an analysis of the negotial and non-negotial political economics instruments available both at local labour system level, and for the single firm.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13173/1/MPRA_paper_13173.pdf
Coppola, Gianluigi and Mazzotta, Fernanda (2005): I sistemi locali del Lavoro in Italia: Aspetti teorici ed empirici. Published in: Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche di Salerno No. 2 (November 2005): pp. 1-81.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13370
2019-09-26T20:59:07Z
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Evaluating land administration systems: a comparative method with an application to Peru and Honduras
Bandeira, Pablo
Sumpsi, Jose María
Falconi, Cesar
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
This article develops a methodology for the evaluation of land administration systems. We propose a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators with benchmarks for each one of them that signal possible venues to improve the administration’s structure and budgetary/management arrangements, in order to bring about the following goals: (1) to contribute to public sector financing through taxes; (2) to encourage the productive and sustainable use of land, and (3) to facilitate access to land for low-income citizens. This methodology was applied to the cases of Honduras and Peru in order to refine our draft evaluation indicators, while evaluating the systems of both countries. Here we present the final refined indicators and benchmarks, and the conclusions from both case studies.
2008-07-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13370/1/MPRA_paper_13370.pdf
Bandeira, Pablo and Sumpsi, Jose María and Falconi, Cesar (2008): Evaluating land administration systems: a comparative method with an application to Peru and Honduras.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13459
2019-10-04T22:04:12Z
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Quality of Life in the Regions: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for West German Labor Markets
Rusche, Karsten
R10 - General
R50 - General
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Which of Germanys regions is the most attractive? Where is it best to live and work - on
objective grounds? These questions are summed up in the concept “quality of life”. This
paper uses recent research projects that determine this parameter to examine the spatial
distribution of quality of life in Germany. For this purpose, an Exploratory Spatial Data
Analysis is conducted which focuses on identifying statistically significant (dis-)similarities
in space. An initial result of this research is that it is important to choose the aggregation
level of administrative units carefully when considering a spatial analysis. The level plays a
crucial role in the strength and impact of spatial effects. In concentrating on various labor
market areas, this paper identifies a significant spatial autocorrelation in the quality of life,
which seems to be characterized by a North-Mid-South divide. In addition, the ESDA results
are used to augment the regression specifications, which helps to avoid the occurrence
of spatial dependencies in the residuals.
2008-10-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13459/1/MPRA_paper_13459.pdf
Rusche, Karsten (2008): Quality of Life in the Regions: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for West German Labor Markets.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13526
2019-09-27T15:37:19Z
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Quality of Life in the Regions: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for West German Labor Markets
Rusche, Karsten
R10 - General
R50 - General
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Which of Germanys regions is the most attractive? Where is it best to live and work - on
objective grounds? These questions are summed up in the concept “quality of life”. This
paper uses recent research projects that determine this parameter to examine the spatial
distribution of quality of life in Germany. For this purpose, an Exploratory Spatial Data
Analysis is conducted which focuses on identifying statistically significant (dis-)similarities
in space. An initial result of this research is that it is important to choose the aggregation
level of administrative units carefully when considering a spatial analysis. The level plays a
crucial role in the strength and impact of spatial effects. In concentrating on various labor
market areas, this paper identifies a significant spatial autocorrelation in the quality of life,
which seems to be characterized by a North-Mid-South divide. In addition, the ESDA results
are used to augment the regression specifications, which helps to avoid the occurrence
of spatial dependencies in the residuals.
2008-10-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13526/1/MPRA_paper_13526.pdf
Rusche, Karsten (2008): Quality of Life in the Regions: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for West German Labor Markets. Published in: CAWM Discussion Papers No. 10 (2008)
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Wissensbasierte Entwicklung in Singapur und Malaysia
Menkhoff, Thomas
Gerke, Solvay
Evers, Hans-Dieter
Chay, Yue Wah
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
This paper addresses the question how knowledge is used to benefit the economic development of Singapore and Malaysia. Both countries have followed strict science policies to establish knowledge governance regimes for a knowledge-based economy. On the basis of empirical studies in both countries we show, how ethnic and religious diversity impact on the ability to develop an epistemic culture of knowledge sharing and ultimately an innovative knowledge-based economy.
2009-03-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13797/1/MPRA_paper_13797.pdf
Menkhoff, Thomas and Gerke, Solvay and Evers, Hans-Dieter and Chay, Yue Wah (2009): Wissensbasierte Entwicklung in Singapur und Malaysia.
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In search of an appropriate tax base for local Leviathans
Göbel, Jürgen
H21 - Efficiency ; Optimal Taxation
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
R51 - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
The impact of local fiscal policy depends on the choice of the tax base. In this paper, we take four criteria to evaluate tax bases, namely: efficiency, simplicity, flexibility, and fairness. The results of such an evaluation depend on how we describe the involved agents. We construct a two stage model of a local economy with three types of agents: Leviathans, households, and housing firms. Each Leviathan seeks to maximize the surplus of his local fiscal budget. Each household seeks to maximize its life-time utility from three types of goods: composite private goods, housing, and local public goods. Each housing firm seeks to maximize its profits. In this model, we analyze the characteristics of four distinct tax bases: land rent, housing capital rent, housing sales, and housing property. In particular, we analyze the responses of the households, the housing firms, and the housing prices on a change of a specific tax rate. The results are used to evaluate each tax base with respect to our four criteria.
2009-02-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13940/1/MPRA_paper_13940.pdf
Göbel, Jürgen (2009): In search of an appropriate tax base for local Leviathans.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13980
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Miesto marketingu v regionálnom rozvoji
Mário, Hošala
Filip, Flaška
Stanislav, Kološta
Ivan, Sokáč
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R1 - General Regional Economics
Regional development and regional policy are not only economic categories discussed
by politician, European Union but also by individual territories, regions and counties.
Marketing places, as a specific form of marketing, is one of instruments (in hand of regions),
that could be used in advantage for regional development, as well as in advance for
decreasing of regional disparities, which are significant, long-lasting and within several
indicators deepening in the Slovak republic. Processed topic theoretically defines basic terms
- region and regional development, marketing places and implements marketing and its
instruments into regional policy with the aim to support regional development and rising of
living standard in regions.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13980/1/MPRA_paper_13980.pdf
Mário, Hošala and Filip, Flaška and Stanislav, Kološta and Ivan, Sokáč (2008): Miesto marketingu v regionálnom rozvoji. Published in: Studia Universitatis „Vasile Goldis“, Seria Stiinte Economice , Vol. 2-A, No. 18 (2008): pp. 66-73.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13981
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Regional disparities among countries and analysis of reasons of their creation
Stanislav, Kološta
et., al.
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
P25 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
Regional development and remission of regional disparities belong to the most discussed
topics in the European Union. The urgency of solving this question proves the fact, that
regional development is one of the key issues of regional policy in the EU. Enormous are
especially disparities among the regions of so called old and new EU members as well as
among the EU members together. These disparities resulted from activity of several factors.
The article is concerned in an analysis and comparison of relevant social economic
indicators of chosen countries in the spheres of education, science, research and
development, innovations, employment and others, which could influence the living
standard of population and sustainable economic growth. The objective of this article is to
identify the most serious social economic disparities among the chosen countries and to
analyze the main reasons of their creation with help of relevant mathematical and statistical
methods.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13981/1/MPRA_paper_13981.pdf
Stanislav, Kološta and et., al. (2007): Regional disparities among countries and analysis of reasons of their creation. Published in: Studia Universitatis „Vasile Goldis“, Seria Stiinte Economice , Vol. 1, No. 17 (2007): pp. 1-8.
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South Sudan urban development strategy
Pareto, Vittorio Emmanuel
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
Southern Sudan - the ten southern provinces of Sudan - has attained autonomy and may soon achieve total independence from Sudan. Yet decades of civil war not only prevented development but destroyed the infrastructure left over from the colonial period. While Southern Sudan is fortunate to have oil resources that can finance building up the new nation, the task is enormous - there are no cities, there is no established industrial base, there are no means of transport, agriculture is incipient and cattle raising still follows ancient nomadic traditions. To aggravate the situation, millions of returning refugees and internally displaced persons are returning to their homelands and need to be settled.
This paper, by outlining a simple, pragmatic strategy to setup the 10 state capitals, is a response to the effort of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) in solving these issues. The establishment of a basic urban system - even with minimal services and infrastructure - is critical to support the establishment of initial economic activities, provide a base for the provincial administrations, supply basic human needs to the existing population and organize the resettlement effort. This effort would complement the works to recover the national road system and the development of Juba as the national capital and main base of operations of GOSS.
After discussing the current issues and conditions, available resources and expected demand, a three phase urban development strategy is suggested to jump start the transformation of the existing settlements into operational urban centres. The development proposal is completed by a brief discussion on urban standards and design recommendations to be adopted.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13988/1/MPRA_paper_13988.pdf
Pareto, Vittorio Emmanuel (2008): South Sudan urban development strategy. Forthcoming in: Alliance Journal Business Reseach (2009)
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Regional convergence and public spending in Italy. Is there a correlation?
Daniele, Vittorio
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
R38 - Government Policy
The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it examines the evolution of regional disparities among the Italian regions during the period 1980-2007. Secondly, the paper analyses the relationship between public spending and regional productivity growth. This analysis is based on the Regional Public Accounts (RPA), a detailed database which measures public financial flows at the territorial level for the period 1996-2006. Results show how the process of both σ and β convergence has mainly concerned labour productivity, while the convergence in per capita GDP has been very weak. The impact of public spending has been different, depending on the expenditure categories and the regions considered. While in the more developed regions of the Northern area of Italy we found a positive correlation between capital expenditure and growth, in the less developed Mezzogiorno the correlation was found only for current expenditure.
2009-03-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14334/1/MPRA_paper_14334.pdf
Daniele, Vittorio (2009): Regional convergence and public spending in Italy. Is there a correlation?
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Capacità di gestione, efficienza istituzionale e impatto dei Fondi Strutturali in Italia
Aiello, Francesco
Pupo, Valeria
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
H50 - General
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
This paper evaluates the economic effects of Structural Funds in Italy. After presenting the distribution of Funds across Italian Regions over the period 1996-2007 and documenting how the Regions manage the financial resources recevied by EU, the paper assesses the impact of Structural Funds on the regional convergence process. While the impact of Funds is positive when considering the growth of regional GDP per capita, this evidence is not confirmed when using the convergence of labour productivity.
2009-03-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14429/1/MPRA_paper_14429.pdf
Aiello, Francesco and Pupo, Valeria (2009): Capacità di gestione, efficienza istituzionale e impatto dei Fondi Strutturali in Italia.
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EU Policies and Cluster Development of Hydrogen Communities
Bleischwitz, Raimund
Bader, Nikolas
Dannemand, Per
Nygaard, Anne
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
Q48 - Government Policy
O52 - Europe
This study takes on the issue of political and socio-economic conditions for the hydrogen economy as part of a future low carbon society in Europe. It is subdivided into two parts. A first part reviews the current EU policy framework in view of its impact on hydrogen and fuel cell development. In the second part an analysis of the regional dynamics and possible hydrogen and fuel cell clusters is carried out.
The current EU policy framework does not hinder hydrogen development. Yet it does not constitute a strong push factor either. EU energy policies have the strongest impact on hydrogen and fuel cell development even though their potential is still underexploited. Regulatory policies have a weak but positive impact on hydrogen. EU spending policies show some inconsistencies.
Regions with a high activity level in HFC also are generally innovative regions. Moreover, the article points out certain industrial clusters that favours some regions' conditions for taking part in the HFC development. However, existing hydrogen infrastructure seems to play a minor role for region's engagement. An overall well-functioning regional innovation system is important in the formative phase of an HFC innovation system, but that further research is needed before qualified policy implications can be drawn.
Looking ahead the current policy framework at EU level does not set clear long term signals and lacks incentives that are strong enough to facilitate high investment in and deployment of sustainable energy technologies. The likely overall effect thus seems to be too weak to enable the EU hydrogen and fuel cell deployment strategy. According to our analysis an enhanced EU policy framework pushing for sustainability in general and the development of hydrogen and fuel cells in particular requires the following: 1) A strong EU energy policy with credible long term targets; 2) better coordination of EU policies: Europe needs a common understanding of key taxation concepts (green taxation, internalisation of externalities) and a common approach for the market introduction of new energy technologies; 3) an EU cluster policy as an attempt to better coordinate and support of European regions in their efforts to further develop HFC and to set up the respective infrastructure.
2008-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14501/1/MPRA_paper_14501.pdf
Bleischwitz, Raimund and Bader, Nikolas and Dannemand, Per and Nygaard, Anne (2008): EU Policies and Cluster Development of Hydrogen Communities. Published in: Bruges european economic research paper No. 14 (December 2008): pp. 1-67.
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On the Problem of Dependent People: hyperbolic discounting in Atlantic Canadian island jurisdictions
Funk, Matt
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
Z10 - General
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
Prince Edward Island's Economics, Statistics and Federal Fiscal Relations Division's 33rd Annual Statistical Review
reports the total value of 2006 fish landings was CAD $166.6 MM. This paper discloses a preliminary finding that
the actual total value of fish landings for 2006 was approximately CAD 416.5 MM. Furthermore, this discourse
submits that this entrenched systemic error has been consistently generated for all 33 years that the Annual
Statistical Review has been published. Moreover, this systemic error creates a ripple-effect and promotes bias
through all relative natural resource valuations. This significant conjecture is presented within an institutional
context which serves as the foundation for this error generation, including other errors associated with The Problem of Induction and The Tragedy of the Commons. Within this broad context, this paper focuses upon deficient resource valuation methods, especially as they relate to dependency and valuation errors. Our analysis contrasts the failure of fishery management amongst dependent Canadian islanders,and the relative success of fishery management amongst independent Icelandic islanders. The possibilities that independent people enjoy higher levels of rationality, efficiency, happiness, economic sustainability, Darwinian fitness, resource holding power, and, are thus, ceteris paribus, less likely to commit errors associated with The Problem of Induction are taken into consideration. Likewise, consideration is given to the notion that dependent people are more likely to exhibit irrational behaviour, develop deeper dependencies, and to contribute to a wide array of maladaptive behaviours, such as those which exacerbate The Tragedy of the Commons.
2007-11-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14522/1/MPRA_paper_14522.pdf
Funk, Matt (2007): On the Problem of Dependent People: hyperbolic discounting in Atlantic Canadian island jurisdictions.
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Iowa’s Tax Incentive Programs Used by Biofuel Producers Tax Credits Program Evaluation Study
Jin, Zhong
Teahan, Brittany
E62 - Fiscal Policy
R50 - General
Q48 - Government Policy
Q11 - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis ; Prices
H43 - Project Evaluation ; Social Discount Rate
H25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies
Q42 - Alternative Energy Sources
H71 - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
Executive Summary: Iowa offers several tax incentive programs that have been utilized by biofuel producers. The tax credit programs include the Enterprise Zone Program (EZ), the New Jobs and Income Program (NJIP), the New Capital Investment Program (NCIP), and the High Quality Job Creation Program (HQJCP). The NJIP and NCIP were replaced by HQJCP on July 1, 2005, but claims under NJIP and NCIP contracts can still be made. The EZ, NJIP, and HQJCP allow biofuel producers to claim a ten percent Investment Tax Credit. The NCIP provides a five percent Investment Tax Credit. All four programs offer a sales and use tax refund and a supplemental Research Activities Tax Credit. The EZ and NJIP also provide a supplemental Iowa Industrial New Job Training Program (260E) withholding tax credit. All four programs were not established specifically to support the biofuel industry but rather to help the State of Iowa promote general business investments. The major findings of the study are:...
2009-03-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14795/1/MPRA_paper_14795.pdf
Jin, Zhong and Teahan, Brittany (2009): Iowa’s Tax Incentive Programs Used by Biofuel Producers Tax Credits Program Evaluation Study.
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Territorial development reconsidered
Sucháček, Jan
R10 - General
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
N90 - General, International, or Comparative
B50 - General
N00 - General
R50 - General
H70 - General
L38 - Public Policy
B52 - Institutional ; Evolutionary
Lamentations on societal and environmental developments become increasingly audible in our times. Currently, we can hear almost every day about reaching the balance in a very sensitive triangle economic sustainability-social sustainability-environmental sustainability. It is largely omitted that concepts of self-governance and self-government constitute one of greatest challenges and opportunities for truly sustainable development in our common future.
2008-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15009/1/MPRA_paper_15009.pdf
Sucháček, Jan (2008): Territorial development reconsidered. Published in: (December 2008)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15025
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Regional Development in Transitional Economies after 1989: Reformation or Deformation?
Sucháček, Jan
Malinovský, Jan
R10 - General
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R40 - General
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
The article deals with dichotomic character of contemporary regional development in transitional economies. It is shown the main problem of spatial development in transitional economies consists in sharp discordance between inadequately distributed and distorted system macrostructures inherited from socialist period and vogue neo-endogenous paradigm of regional development that is currently widely applied in both developed and transitional countries. The roots of this unfavourable state can be traced back to the history and hence the evolution of regional developmental conceptions that formed wider context of contemporary spatial developments in transitional economies will be discussed too. The case study that focuses on the Czech Republic brings ample evidence about above mentioned tensions.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Sucháček, Jan and Malinovský, Jan (2007): Regional Development in Transitional Economies after 1989: Reformation or Deformation?
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Active Labour Market Policies and Unemployment Convergence in Transition
Tyrowicz, Joanna
Wójcik, Piotr
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
J43 - Agricultural Labor Markets
E64 - Incomes Policy ; Price Policy
J18 - Public Policy
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
In this paper we approach the issue of social cohesion across NUTS4 regions in Poland. We analyse regional dynamics of unemployment rates and try to evaluate the impact of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) in observed trends. Using data for 1999 till 2008 we employ tools typically applied to income convergence analyses to test the stability of unemployment distribution - both unconditionally and taking into account explanatory power of unemployment structure and ALMPs in Polish regions.
Our findings suggest no unconditional convergence understood both in terms of levels and in terms
of dispersion, while the latter seems to suggest "convergence of clubs" within a group highest unemploy-
ment regions. The analysis comprised as well accounting for potential impact of ALMPs, controlling for dierentiated unemployment structure. We find no evidence that cohesion eorts contribute to the convergence or less of the divergence phenomena.
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15201/1/MPRA_paper_15201.pdf
Tyrowicz, Joanna and Wójcik, Piotr (2009): Active Labour Market Policies and Unemployment Convergence in Transition.
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Review of Lead Phase Out for Air Quality Improvement in the Third World Cities Lessons from Thailand and Indonesia
Hirota, Keiko
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
P41 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
N75 - Asia including Middle East
Due to the rapid economic growth, and increase of motor vehicle ownerships in Asian countries, people are suffering from serious air pollution problems, especially in large cities. There has been a worldwide movement to eliminate lead from gasoline since the 1970s. In accordance with lead elimination from gasoline, the concentration of lead in air and its health impact have also decreased.
This paper is an attempt to discuss about environmental measures in Thailand and Indonesia. From a point of view on environmental measures, the case studies show different problem and process of lead phase out policy because of different socio-economic backgrounds, the initial conditions of the oil industries and government capacity. Behinds environmental measures, the case studies indicate that the most important change driver is strong leadership to achieve consensus among different stakeholders.
2006-04-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15322/2/MPRA_paper_15322.pdf
Hirota, Keiko (2006): Review of Lead Phase Out for Air Quality Improvement in the Third World Cities Lessons from Thailand and Indonesia. Published in: Journal of Studies in Regional Science , Vol. 36, No. 2 (June 2006): pp. 527-541.
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Nonlinear Stochastic Convergence Analysis of Regional Unemployment Rates in Poland
Tyrowicz, Joanna
Wojcik, Piotr
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
This paper analyzes convergence of unemployment rates in Poland at NUTS4 level by testing nonlinear convergence, applying the modified KSS-CHLL for each pair of territorial units. The results suggest that actually the convergence is a rare phenomenon and occurs only in 1916 cases out of potential over 70 000 combinations. This paper inquires what systematic reasons contribute to this phenomenon.
There are some circumstances under which unemployment convergence should be more awaited than in the others. These include sharing a higher level territorial authority, experiencing similar labour market hardship or sharing the same structural characteristics. For each of these three criteria we analyse the frequency of the dierential nonstationarity within groups (as evidence of convergence)
and across groups (as evidence of "catching up").
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15384/1/MPRA_paper_15384.pdf
Tyrowicz, Joanna and Wojcik, Piotr (2009): Nonlinear Stochastic Convergence Analysis of Regional Unemployment Rates in Poland.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15385
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15385/
Regional Dynamics of Unemployment in Poland - A Convergence Approach
Tyrowicz, Joanna
Wojcik, Piotr
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
J18 - Public Policy
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
In this paper we approach the regional unemployment dynamics in Poland. Using policy relevant NUTS4 level data for 1999 till 2006 we employ tools typically applied to income convergence analyses to inquire the patterns of unemployment distribution. We apply diverse analytical techniques to seek traces of convergence, including beta and sigma convergence as well as pass-through analysis.
We demonstrate that it is highly stable over time, while only weak "convergence of clubs" is supported by the data and only for the high unemployment regions. Results suggest no support in favour of beta-type convergence, i.e. convergence of levels. Even controlling for nation-wide labour market outlooks (conditional convergence) does not provide any support to this hypothesis. Further, regions with both very high and very low unemployment show signs of high persistence and low mobility in the national distribution, while the middle ones tend to demonstrate higher mobility and essentially no regional unemployment dierentials persistence. This diagnosis is confirmed by sigma-convergence analysis which indicates no general divergence or convergence patterns. Transitions seem to be slightly more frequent, but at the same time less sustainable for middle range districts, while movements up and down the ladder occur predominantly for the same districts. Findings allow to define the patterns of local labour market dynamics, pointing to dierentiated divergence paths. Importantly, these tendencies prevail despite cohesion policies financing schemes, which allocate relatively more resources to deprived regions.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15385/1/MPRA_paper_15385.pdf
Tyrowicz, Joanna and Wojcik, Piotr (2007): Regional Dynamics of Unemployment in Poland - A Convergence Approach.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15386
2019-10-01T22:49:58Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15386/
Unemployment Convergence in Transition
Katrencik, David
Tyrowicz, Joanna
Wojcik, Piotr
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
J18 - Public Policy
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
In this paper an attempt is made to inquire the dynamics of regional unemployment rates in transition economies. We use policy relevant NUTS4 unemployment rates for transition economies characterised by both relatively intense (Poland, Slovaka) and relatively mild labour market hardships (namely Czech Republic). We apply diverse analytical techniques to seek traces of convergence, including beta - and sigma-convergence as well as time-series approach.
Results in each of the countries suggest no support in favour of beta-type convergence, i.e. convergence of levels. Even controlling for nation-wide labour market outlooks (conditional convergence) does not provide any support to this hypothesis. Further, regions with both very high and very low unemployment show signs of high persistence and low mobility in the national distribution, while the middle ones tend to demonstrate higher mobility and essentially no regional unemployment differentials persistence. This diagnosis is confirmed by sigma-convergence analysis which indicates no general divergence or convergence patterns. Transitions seem to be more frequent, but at the same time less sustainable for middle range districts, while movements up and down the ladder occur frequently for the same districts.
Findings allow to define the patterns of local labour market dynamics, pointing to differentiated divergence paths. Importantly, these tendencies persists despite cohesion policies financing schemes, which allocate relatively more resources to deprived regions in all these countries.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15386/1/MPRA_paper_15386.pdf
Katrencik, David and Tyrowicz, Joanna and Wojcik, Piotr (2008): Unemployment Convergence in Transition.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15487
2019-09-29T15:01:56Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15487/
A multilevel analysis on the economic impact of public infrastructure and corruption on Italian regions
Torrisi, Gianpiero
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
This paper uses data contained in the Regional Public Accounts database to investigate the heterogeneity of the impact of public infrastructure across Italian regions basing the analysis also on institutional and political ground. The issue is here addressed linking the analysis of the impact of infrastructure on GDP with the issue of corruption by means of a random coefficient panel data model approach. I consider a novel objective measure of corruption that consists of the difference between a measure of the physical quantities of public infrastructure and the cumulative price government pays for public capital stocks. The empirical analysis confirms the existence of parameter heterogeneity across Italian regions and is also consistent with theoretical considerations that corruption negatively affects economic performance.
2009-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15487/1/MPRA_paper_15487.pdf
Torrisi, Gianpiero (2009): A multilevel analysis on the economic impact of public infrastructure and corruption on Italian regions.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15718
2019-09-26T15:02:12Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15718/
Centralization of Decentralized Governance - Evidence from West Bengal Panchayat
Misra, Jaydev
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R0 - General
Democratic decentralization in the state of West Bengal, of its own, are not producing systems that are more effective or more accountable to local needs and interests. The formal mechanisms matter less than the informal institutions that underpin local political economies. And the understanding of it by the poor may have been reflected in the ballot box of last Panchayat election held in 2008. If 'only alternative of the left is better left', then the left strategy of democratic decentralization must have to be replaced by alternative model with more accountability, less corruption and abolition of those clientilsm.
2008-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15718/1/MPRA_paper_15718.pdf
Misra, Jaydev (2008): Centralization of Decentralized Governance - Evidence from West Bengal Panchayat.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15817
2019-09-28T04:54:11Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15817/
Does Geographic Factors Determine Local Economic Development?
Brata, Aloysius Gunadi
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of geographic characteristics on the local economic development. There are two important reasons related to that objective. First, study on this topic in the case of Indonesia is rather limited, especially in the field of local economic development of the country. Second, geographically, Indonesia is a heterogeneous country and its consequence is development policy should also consider the geographic characteristics of the country. The study estimates impact of some geographic variables on the Gross Domestic Regional Product (GDRP) per capita and GDRP density as indicators of local economic development with data of the districts in the Central Java province uses regression models. Geographic variables used in the model are distance to economic centres, location of districts, and a measure of clustering of economic activity. Other socio-economic variable is also used in the model, such as literacy rate which is one of the components of human development index (HDI). This study found that in general geography influences local economic performance; however, geography is not the only determinant of economic performance. It also suggests that study on geographic inequality not only apply “per capita approach” but also “density approach” to get a more comprehensive picture of the impact of geography on economic development.
2009-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15817/1/MPRA_paper_15817.pdf
Brata, Aloysius Gunadi (2009): Does Geographic Factors Determine Local Economic Development?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16131
2019-09-26T22:38:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16131/
The regional public spending for tourism in Italy: An empirical analysis
Cellini, Roberto
Torrisi, Gianpiero
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
C21 - Cross-Sectional Models ; Spatial Models ; Treatment Effect Models ; Quantile Regressions
We analyse the effects of public spending for tourism, in Italian regions. The evaluation is permitted by the availability of the databank under the project “Conti Pubblici Territoriali” (“Regional Public Account”) of the Ministry of Economic Development: the spending of all public subjects is aggregated according to the regions of destinations, and classified according to different criteria, including the sectoral criterion. We take a cross-section regression analysis approach. The effects of public spending for tourism on tourism attraction are investigated. Generally speaking, the effectiveness of public spending appears to be really weak.
2009-07-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16131/1/MPRA_paper_16131.pdf
Cellini, Roberto and Torrisi, Gianpiero (2009): The regional public spending for tourism in Italy: An empirical analysis.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16401
2019-10-03T15:47:29Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16401/
Reversing a Balance Wheel Principle and Changing a Roller Coaster Pattern
Orkodashvili, Mariam
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
A23 - Graduate
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
The paper discusses funding principles and policies of higher education during the recession period. The role of state appropriations for the viability of public higher education institutions is discussed. State funding affecting institutional behaviour is another issue raised. The paper discusses the possibility of expanding state funding for higher education institutions instead of cutting during economic recession. The examples of Midwestern states is discussed for this purpose. Funding higher education institutions is perceived as an important component of the process of investing in human capital.
2008-12-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16401/1/MPRA_paper_16401.pdf
Orkodashvili, Mariam (2008): Reversing a Balance Wheel Principle and Changing a Roller Coaster Pattern.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16418
2019-09-28T04:39:13Z
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7375626A656374733D41:4131:413133
7375626A656374733D41:4132:413233
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16418/
Reversing the Balance Wheel Principle
Orkodashvili, Mariam
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
A23 - Graduate
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
The paper discusses funding principles and policies of higher education during the recession period. The role of state appropriations for the viability of public higher education institutions is emphasized. State funding affecting institutional behaviour is another issue raised. The paper analyzes the possibility of expanding state funding for higher education institutions instead of cutting during economic recession. The examples of Midwestern states is discussed for this purpose. Funding higher education institutions is perceived as an important component of the process of investing in human capital. Referring to scholarly findings, Leader-Laggard Model and Event History Analysis are suggested as optimal methods for evaluating the implementation of new policies as they spread from one state to another.
2008-12-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16418/1/MPRA_paper_16418.pdf
Orkodashvili, Mariam (2008): Reversing the Balance Wheel Principle.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16547
2019-09-26T08:50:24Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16547/
Organized crime and regional development. A review of the Italian case
Vittorio, Daniele
K49 - Other
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
R59 - Other
This paper offers a review of the effects of organized crime on regional economic development, with particular reference to the case of Italy. After reviewing the empirical studies that analyse the relationship between crime and economic development, the paper examines the regional distribution and the social costs of some crimes (in particular extortion) that can be linked to mafia type criminality.
2009-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16547/1/MPRA_paper_16547.pdf
Vittorio, Daniele (2009): Organized crime and regional development. A review of the Italian case.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16917
2019-09-26T15:52:01Z
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7375626A656374733D52:5235:523533
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7375626A656374733D43:4332:433231
7375626A656374733D4D:4D34:4D3439
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16917/
The regional public spending for tourism in Italy: an empirical analysis
Cellini, Roberto
Torrisi, Gianpiero
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
C21 - Cross-Sectional Models ; Spatial Models ; Treatment Effect Models ; Quantile Regressions
M49 - Other
We analyse the effects of public spending for tourism, in Italian regions. The evaluation is permitted by the availability of the databank under the project “Conti Pubblici Territoriali” (“Regional Public Account”) of the Ministry of Economic Development: the spending of all public subjects is aggregated according to the regions of destinations, and classified according to different criteria, including the sectoral criterion. We take a cross-section regression analysis approach. The effects of public spending for tourism on tourism attraction are investigated. Generally speaking, the effectiveness of public spending appears to be really weak.
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16917/1/MPRA_paper_16917.pdf
Cellini, Roberto and Torrisi, Gianpiero (2009): The regional public spending for tourism in Italy: an empirical analysis.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17005
2019-10-09T16:51:30Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17005/
The Roles of Commercial Credit and Direct Subsidies in Czech Agriculture During Early Transition
Janda, Karel
R51 - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
Q14 - Agricultural Finance
This paper provides an econometric estimation of the influence of individual
social-economic, natural, and technological determinants of the credit provision for
the agriculture in the case of the Czech Republic. The regression model is based on the
microeconomic model of the maximization of the bank’s profit. The results of this paper
show that the support of agricultural credit provided by Guarantee Fund goes primarily
to the areas with a good conditions for the development of agricultural production. On
the other hand, the direct government subsidies are targeted primarily to the areas with
non-favourable natural conditions.
2009-08-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17005/1/MPRA_paper_17005.pdf
Janda, Karel (2009): The Roles of Commercial Credit and Direct Subsidies in Czech Agriculture During Early Transition.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17853
2019-10-05T16:38:18Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17853/
Structural Funds and Economic Divide in Italy
Aiello, Francesco
Pupo, Valeria
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
H50 - General
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
This paper aims to provide a contribution to the debate on the effectiveness of cohesion policies in Italy. The focus is on the territorial effects of EU spending from 1996 to 2007. The empirical analysis is based on the estimate of an expanded neoclassical growth model in which the Structural Funds are one of the variables that explain the convergence across Italian regions. Using panel data and a dynamic panel estimator we find that the Structural Funds, even having had a greater impact in the South compared to the Centre-North, have not contributed to reduce the economic divide in Italy.
2009-10-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17853/1/MPRA_paper_17853.pdf
Aiello, Francesco and Pupo, Valeria (2009): Structural Funds and Economic Divide in Italy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17938
2019-09-30T16:44:31Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17938/
Disparités régionales et diffusion des TIC en Tunisie
BEN YOUSSEF, Adel
METHAMEM, Raouchen
M'HENNI, Hatem
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R0 - General
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
The aim of this article consists in showing in what the emergence of new generation of information and communication technologies can be a worsening factor of imbalances between urban zones and rural zones and contribute to a thickening of the urban zones. Contrary to presupposed theoretical praising the capacity of these technologies to rebalance the development and to reverse the location of economic agents with their location. We will show in what these technologies could lead to a greater urban concentration in the less developed Countries (LDC’s). Indeed, four complementary explanatory factors are explained and illustrated in the case of Tunisia. The territorial dynamics engaged by the concentration of industries in the cities finds a second breath with the ICT.
2009-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17938/1/MPRA_paper_17938.pdf
BEN YOUSSEF, Adel and METHAMEM, Raouchen and M'HENNI, Hatem (2009): Disparités régionales et diffusion des TIC en Tunisie. Published in: Revue électronique TIC & Développement (March 2009)
fr
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18078
2019-09-28T16:20:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18078/
Distribution of Demand for School Quality: Evidence from Quantile Regression
Wada, Roy
Herbert, Zahirovic-Herbert
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
R2 - Household Analysis
D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics
D4 - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
Our results show that high-income families place significantly higher value on academic achievement than low-income families. High-income families are also more likely to penalize house price for non-desirable non-academic school quality. This paper uses quantile regression to examine the distribution of demand for school quality. For academic achievement, the average effects as estimated by OLS are biased toward zero due to “aggregation” of families’ willingness to pay. We take advantage of a court-ordered redistricting as a quasi-random assignment of school quality. Subdivision and school fixed-effects are used to control for unobserved characteristics.
2009-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18078/1/MPRA_paper_18078.pdf
Wada, Roy and Herbert, Zahirovic-Herbert (2009): Distribution of Demand for School Quality: Evidence from Quantile Regression.
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