Sökning: "regional convergence"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden regional convergence.
1. On Specifying and Estimating Economic Growth as a Spatial Process : Convergence, Inequality, and Migration
Sammanfattning : This thesis includes three self-contained papers. The first paper considers the effect of geographically dependent observations on cross-sectional growth convergence and proposes a way of decomposing the level of technology taking into account geographical variation in growth rates. LÄS MER
2. Regional and Industrial Growth Patterns in 20th Century Western Europe
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with various aspects of growth, convergence and technological change, all analysed from an empirical perspective. A common theme throughout the six chapters is the analysis of economic historical questions of productivity growth with the use of quantitative statistical techniques. LÄS MER
3. Emergence of Regional Actor Systems - Generic Technologies and the Search for Useful or Saleable Applications
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this Ph.D. dissertation is to explore the development and economic exploitation of generic technologies in a regional setting. The rationale for the study is that an analysis of technology and technological development is lacking in studies of regional settings. LÄS MER
4. Local government expenditures and regional growth in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five papers, which concern expenditure decisions and economic growth within Swedish local government.Paper [1] explores the hypothesis that local fiscal shocks have short run effects on revenue and expenditure decisions made within local government. LÄS MER
5. Hedonic prices, economic growth, and spatial dependence
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three papers on econometric modeling of spatial dependence. The awareness of interactions between actors is fundamental for understanding property markets as well as the growth of regions. In both cases, neighbors and neighboring markets may stimulate or hamper growth of values. LÄS MER