"This paper develops a forward demographic rates-based multiregional population model on the basis of a set of multiregional population accounts. Forward emigration rates and immigration flows are adopted to describe the external migrations. The model is used to make consistent multiregional population projections of China at a provincial level.... Three sets of multiregional population project...

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, with periphery countries in the European Union even more falling behind the core countries economically, there have been quests for various kind of fiscal policies in order to revert divergence. How these policies would unfold and perform comparatively is largely unknown. We analyze four such stylized policies in an agent-based macroeconomic model and s...

This paper provides a critical survey of the now burgeoning literature on the spatial application of endogenous growth theory. Attention is paid both to the (mainly North American) "new economics of urban and regional growth" literature, and to European literature that has focused on questions of convergence and the estimation of the Verdoorn law. The paper then identifies potentially fruitful ...

Regional Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Overeducation The paper analyses the link between human capital and regional economic growth in the European Union. Using various indicators of human capital calculated from census microdata, we conclude that the recent economic performance of European regions is associated with an increase in overeducation. In fact, measures of educationa...

SANTIAGO CARBÓ VALVERDE,* DAVID B. HUMPHREY† and FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ‡ *Departamento de Economı́a Aplicada, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja s/n, E-18071 Granada, Spain. Email: [email protected] †Department of Finance, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Email: [email protected] ‡Departamento de Economı́a Aplicada, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. E...

Building on standard growth-theory models, this paper provides an empirical investigation of the effects of crime on regional economic performance in Italy, as measured by labour productivity growth. Our analysis relies on a panel of annual data on the Italian regions and, contrary to previous studies in the field, adopts a flexible and efficient panel estimation approach which controls for par...

in present study, role of agricultural on eco countries regional convergence was assessed in dynamic panel data model. at first, eco countries convergence and agricultural sector effect in convergence acceleration was surveyed by generalized method of moments (gmm) over the period 1996-2005. results showed that, this is convergence between eco countries. in spite of increasing regional growth, ...

Most models of the potential effects of climate change on forest growth have produced deterministic predictions. However, there are large uncertainties in data on regional forest condition, estimates of future climate, and quantitative relationships between environmental conditions and forest growth rate. We constructed a new model to analyze these uncertainties along with available experimenta...

In this article, we studied the convergence of regional economic growth in Beijing. We divided 18 districts and counties in Beijing into four economic regions, utilized the method of Gini coefficient decomposition to educe the σ -convergence didn’t exist in the regional economic growth of Beijing. At the same time, we utilized the panel data model and the spatial panel data model analysis to ed...

Mashhad Metamorphic Complex (MMC) with metamorphic, granitic intrusions and ophiolite units is situated in the suture zone of Paleotethys in NE Iran. Triassic staurolite-garnet schist of Khalaj represents the highest grade of metamorphism in MMC. In this study EPMA analyses of garnet and biotite used to determine the maximum temperature for regional metamorphism. The pattern of zoning in garnet...