Using the panel data of 27 provinces between 1978 and 2008, we employed a instrumental regression technique to examine the relationship between economic growth, energy demand/production and the related policies in China. The empirical results show that forming a cross-province integrated energy market will in general reduce the response of equilibrium user costs of energy products to their loca...

Spatial club convergence is a group of regions which are adjacent to each other in space and have similar initial conditions and structural features while converging towards the same steady state in the economic development. Based on the Solow model, this paper builds a theoretical model to prove the mechanism of spatial club convergence. The spatial club convergence process is explored in inla...

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal distribution. Thus, application of the threshold model to a real world case, here West Germany, shows...

The relationship between economic growth and energy consumption is one of the hot topics in economic research. There are many literatures concern about this topic from theoretical and empirical viewpoint. This paper applies panel unit root, heterogeneous panel cointegration and production function to investigate the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth within a multivaria...

We document empirical evidence linking regional growth in the United States over the last 25 years with entrepreneurial activity, or ‘business dynamism’. The main data source is the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) released by the US Census Bureau. We uncover a new stylised fact: across US states, it is not the level but rather the change in business entry rate that has a significant positive...

The historical role of agriculture in economic geography and recent conceptual developments – including multifunctional agriculture (MFA), the new economic geography, amenity-driven growth, and the “world is flat” and “creative class” hypotheses – are examined, and recent empirical research in North America and Europe is reviewed, in order to assess the potential for MFA as an engine of regiona...

PORTER M. E. (2003) The economic performance of regions, Reg. Studies 37, 549–578. This paper examines the basic facts about the regional economic performance, the composition of regional economies and the role of clusters in the US economy over period of 1990 to 2000. The performance of regional economies varies markedly in terms of wage, wage growth, employment growth and patenting rate. Base...

The article regards “The Belt and Road” initiative as a quasi-natural experiment. Based on the county panel data from 1999 to 2017, difference-in-differences model (DID) is used examine impact of regional economic growth innovation. study found that can significantly increase innovation region. Through placebo test robustness test, it shows good policy uniqueness characteristics. further analyz...

In the literature on growth, infrastructure, in addition to other factors, is identified as a determining element growth of regions from long-term perspective. However, there are few studies where unit analysis disaggregated down regional level. Therefore, this research aims explore importance infrastructure (social and economic) economic Ecuador´s provinces. The methodology used leads calculat...