Does urban concentration matter for changes in country economic performance?

Does Institutions Matter for Economic Development? Evidence for ASEAN Selected Countries

Abstract The theoretical and applied issues of the relationship between institutions and economic growth have thoroughly been examined in ASEAN countries. This study revisits the issue and tests the role of institutions in the economic growth using the World Governance Indicators (WGI) and uses a new method to examine the impact of the various institutions on the economic growth. We used dynam...

Does Economics Matter for/in Economic Geography?

Immigrants’ Economic Performance Across Europe - Does Immigration Policy Matter?

Drawing on panel data from the ECHP, the BHPS and the GSOEP, we compare the economic performance of immigrants to Great Britain, West Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Austria to that of the respective indigenous population. Economic performance is measured in terms of the country-specific pre-government income position and change in the relative income position due to red...

Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?

Does Education Matter for Economic Growth? Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear regression estimator and a nonparametric variable relevance ...

Does block size matter? The impact of urban design on economic vitality for Chinese cities

The influence of urban design on economic vitality has been analyzed by a number of researchers and is also a key focus of many planning/design theories. However, most quantitative studies are based on just one city or a small set of cities, rather than a large number of cities that are representative of an entire country. With the increasing availability of new data, we aim to alleviate this g...