This article presents an empirical investigation of factors influencing local renewable energy (RE) deployment. The existing literature has mainly focused on the global contribution RE at macro-country level. particularity this study resides in extension analysis to level, and it was motivated by fact that targets for deployment are partly defined national but establishment means production org...

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial econometric techniques, and is strongly linked to the economic growth literature. In contrast, studies on relat...

The paper suggests and studies count data models corresponding to previously studied spatial econometric models for continuous variables. A novel way of incorporating spatial weights is considered for both time and space dynamic models with or without simultaneity. The paper also contains a brief discussion about estimation issues.

The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as Germany) have been, in recent years, the subject of various theoretical and empirical studies. Several researchers have shown an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment processes of unemployment and the average degree of dependence of the current unemployment rates or gros...

Purpose This paper investigates the impact of governance on economic growth, considering spatial dependence between countries. Design/methodology/approach The study employs regression models to estimate growth in a sample 116 countries worldwide 2017. Findings findings imply that influence is statistically significant. Moreover, if all other control variables are constant, 1% increase raises av...