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Andres Rodriguezpose - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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political decentralization economic growth and Regional Disparities in the oecd
Regional Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Roberto Ezcurra, Andres RodriguezposeAbstract:Ezcurra R. and Rodriguez-Pose A. Political decentralization, economic growth and Regional Disparities in the OECD, Regional Studies. Recent scholarly work has addressed whether decentralization affects economic growth and Regional Disparities, by typically resorting to fiscal decentralization, while disregarding political decentralization indices. This article covers this gap by investigating the association between different political decentralization indices with two measures of economic performance: changes in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and in territorial inequalities. The results suggest a lack of statistical relationship between political decentralization and economic growth, regardless of how political decentralization is measured. In the case of Regional Disparities, the results depend on the index used and range from the absence of a link to a positive association between both factors. Ezcurra R. and Rodriguez-Pose A. 经济发展与合作组织（OECD）中的政治去中心化、经济成长与区域差距，区域研究。近年来的学术研究处理去中心化是否会影响经济成长与区域差距...
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does decentralization matter for Regional Disparities a cross country analysis
Journal of Economic Geography, 2010Co-Authors: Andres Rodriguezpose, Roberto EzcurraAbstract:This paper looks at the relationship between fiscal and political decentralization and the evolution of Regional inequalities in a panel of 26 countries -- 19 developed and 7 developing -- for the period between 1990 and 2006. Using an instrumental variables method, it finds that whereas for the whole sample decentralization is completely dissociated for the evolution of Regional Disparities, the results are highly contingent on the level of development, the existing level of territorial inequalities, and the fiscal redistributive capacity of the countries in the sample. Decentralization in high income countries has, if anything, been associated with a reduction of Regional inequality. In low and medium income countries, fiscal decentralization has been associated with a significant rise in Regional Disparities, which the positive effects of political decentralization have been unable to compensate. Policy preferences by subnational governments for expenditure in economic affairs, education, and social protection have contributed to this trend.
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family types and the persistence of Regional Disparities in europe
Economic Geography, 2008Co-Authors: Gilles Duranton, Andres Rodriguezpose, Richard SandallAbstract:This article examines the association between one of the most basic institutional forms, the family, and a series of demographic, educational, social, and economic indicators across regions in Europe. Using Emmanuel Todd’s classification of medieval European family systems, we identify potential links between family types and Regional Disparities in household size, educational attainment, social capital, labor participation, sectoral structure, wealth, and inequality. The results indicate that medieval family structures seem to have influenced European Regional Disparities in virtually every indicator that we considered. That these links remain, despite the influence of the modern state and population migration, suggests that such structures are either extremely resilient or in the past were internalized within other social and economic institutions as they developed.
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family types and the persistence of Regional Disparities in europe
Bruges European Economic Research Papers, 2007Co-Authors: Gilles Duranton, Andres Rodriguezpose, Richard SandallAbstract:This paper examines the association between one of the most basic institutional forms, the family, and a series of demographic, educational, social, and economic indicators across regions in Europe. Using Emmanuel Todd’s classification of medieval European family systems, we identify potential links between family types and Regional Disparities in household size, educational attainment, social capital, labour participation, sectoral structure, wealth, and inequality. The results indicate that medieval family structures seem to have influenced European Regional Disparities in virtually every indicator considered. That these links remain, despite the influence of the modern state and population migration, suggests that either such structures are extremely resilient or else they have in the past been internalised within other social and economic institutions as they developed.
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how does trade affect Regional Disparities
World Development, 2006Co-Authors: Andres Rodriguezpose, Nick GillAbstract:Although the relationships between rising trade, economic growth, and international Disparities have been well studied, those between trade and intranational Disparities remain under-explored. In this paper, we present a theoretical formulation and empirical evaluation based on eight major world economies, finding that the link between trade and Regional Disparities is evidenced most strongly when sectoral shifts in trade composition are considered. As primary sector goods trade loses importance in the composition of total trade, Regional Disparities are likely to increase. This effect may have a greater negative impact on developing countries because the initial magnitude of intranational Disparities tends to be greater in the developing world and its share of agricultural trade has historically been higher.
Roberto Ezcurra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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political decentralization economic growth and Regional Disparities in the oecd
Regional Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Roberto Ezcurra, Andres RodriguezposeAbstract:Ezcurra R. and Rodriguez-Pose A. Political decentralization, economic growth and Regional Disparities in the OECD, Regional Studies. Recent scholarly work has addressed whether decentralization affects economic growth and Regional Disparities, by typically resorting to fiscal decentralization, while disregarding political decentralization indices. This article covers this gap by investigating the association between different political decentralization indices with two measures of economic performance: changes in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and in territorial inequalities. The results suggest a lack of statistical relationship between political decentralization and economic growth, regardless of how political decentralization is measured. In the case of Regional Disparities, the results depend on the index used and range from the absence of a link to a positive association between both factors. Ezcurra R. and Rodriguez-Pose A. 经济发展与合作组织（OECD）中的政治去中心化、经济成长与区域差距，区域研究。近年来的学术研究处理去中心化是否会影响经济成长与区域差距...
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does decentralization matter for Regional Disparities a cross country analysis
Journal of Economic Geography, 2010Co-Authors: Andres Rodriguezpose, Roberto EzcurraAbstract:This paper looks at the relationship between fiscal and political decentralization and the evolution of Regional inequalities in a panel of 26 countries -- 19 developed and 7 developing -- for the period between 1990 and 2006. Using an instrumental variables method, it finds that whereas for the whole sample decentralization is completely dissociated for the evolution of Regional Disparities, the results are highly contingent on the level of development, the existing level of territorial inequalities, and the fiscal redistributive capacity of the countries in the sample. Decentralization in high income countries has, if anything, been associated with a reduction of Regional inequality. In low and medium income countries, fiscal decentralization has been associated with a significant rise in Regional Disparities, which the positive effects of political decentralization have been unable to compensate. Policy preferences by subnational governments for expenditure in economic affairs, education, and social protection have contributed to this trend.
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fiscal decentralization and Regional Disparities evidence from several european union countries
Environment and Planning A, 2008Co-Authors: Roberto Ezcurra, Pedro PascualAbstract:This paper investigates for the first time the relationship between fiscal decentralization and Regional Disparities in a set of European Union countries. Our findings reveal that the devolution of fiscal power to subnational governments is negatively correlated with the level of Regional inequality within the sample countries. Therefore, the processes of fiscal decentralization may contribute to a more balanced distribution of resources across space, making up for the central government's loss of redistributive power. In fact, this result is robust to the inclusion of additional explanatory variables in the analysis, and to the choice of the measure used to quantify the degree of dispersion in the spatial distribution of per capita income.
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Regional Disparities and national development revisited the case of western europe
European Urban and Regional Studies, 2006Co-Authors: Roberto Ezcurra, Manuel RapunAbstract:This article explores the relationship between Regional inequality and economic development level in 14 Western European countries for the period 1980–2002. The results, which were obtained by means of a semi-parametric methodology, indicate the presence of a process of Regional divergence once a certain level of development has been reached. Nevertheless, in contrast to the available empirical evidence for the United States, our estimates show that the increase in Regional Disparities is purely transitory. Indeed, beyond a given level of per capita GDP, Regional inequality can be seen to decrease, ultimately leading to a stabilization of territorial imbalances in the later stages of the development process.These findings are robust to the inclusion of additional variables in the analysis and to the choice of the measure used to quantify Regional Disparities.
Oriol Rocasagales - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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fiscal decentralization and Regional Disparities the importance of good governance
Papers in Regional Science, 2015Co-Authors: Andreas P Kyriacou, Leonel Muinelogallo, Oriol RocasagalesAbstract:In this paper we consider how government quality mediates the relationship between fiscal decentralization and Regional Disparities. Previous work has argued that fiscal decentralization has the potential to reduce income difference across regions but that this potential may not be realized because of governance problems associated with subnational authorities. Our empirical evidence based on a sample of 24 OECD countries over the period 1984 to 2006 lends a measure of support to this idea. We find that fiscal decentralization promotes Regional convergence in high government quality settings but, worryingly, it leads to wider Regional Disparities in countries with poor governance. Because most poor countries are plagued with governance problems, this would caution against fiscal decentralization with a view to reducing Regional Disparities in these countries.
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the impact of eu structural funds on Regional Disparities within member states
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Andreas P Kyriacou, Oriol RocasagalesAbstract:We examine the impact of structural and cohesion funds on Regional Disparities within EU countries over the period 1995 – 2006. We find that structural funds have reduced Regional Disparities over this period. Our empirical estimates also suggest that the effect of structural funds on Regional Disparities is potentially reversed above some level of transfer intensity (approximately 1.6% of country gross domestic product). This has implications for the desirable allocation of the funds across countries especially since, in the current programming period (2007 – 13), all the new member states of the Union except for Cyprus and Malta have a transfer intensity which exceeds this threshold. Keywords: EU structural funds, Regional disparties, transfer intensity, panel data
Andreas P Kyriacou - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Impact of EU structural funds on Regional Disparities within member states
2020Co-Authors: Andreas P Kyriacou, Oriol Roca I SagalésAbstract:We examine the impact of the structural and cohesion funds on Regional Disparities within EU countries over the period 1995-2006. We find that the structural funds have reduced Regional Disparities over this period. Our empirical estimates also suggest that the effect of the structural funds on Regional Disparities is potentially reversed above some level of transfer intensity (approximately 1.6% of country GDP). This has implications for the desirable allocation of the funds across countries especially since, in the current programming period (2007-2013), all the new member states of the Union bar Cyprus and Malta have a transfer intensity which exceeds this threshold.
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fiscal decentralization and Regional Disparities the importance of good governance
Papers in Regional Science, 2015Co-Authors: Andreas P Kyriacou, Leonel Muinelogallo, Oriol RocasagalesAbstract:In this paper we consider how government quality mediates the relationship between fiscal decentralization and Regional Disparities. Previous work has argued that fiscal decentralization has the potential to reduce income difference across regions but that this potential may not be realized because of governance problems associated with subnational authorities. Our empirical evidence based on a sample of 24 OECD countries over the period 1984 to 2006 lends a measure of support to this idea. We find that fiscal decentralization promotes Regional convergence in high government quality settings but, worryingly, it leads to wider Regional Disparities in countries with poor governance. Because most poor countries are plagued with governance problems, this would caution against fiscal decentralization with a view to reducing Regional Disparities in these countries.
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the impact of eu structural funds on Regional Disparities within member states
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Andreas P Kyriacou, Oriol RocasagalesAbstract:We examine the impact of structural and cohesion funds on Regional Disparities within EU countries over the period 1995 – 2006. We find that structural funds have reduced Regional Disparities over this period. Our empirical estimates also suggest that the effect of structural funds on Regional Disparities is potentially reversed above some level of transfer intensity (approximately 1.6% of country gross domestic product). This has implications for the desirable allocation of the funds across countries especially since, in the current programming period (2007 – 13), all the new member states of the Union except for Cyprus and Malta have a transfer intensity which exceeds this threshold. Keywords: EU structural funds, Regional disparties, transfer intensity, panel data
Richard Sandall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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family types and the persistence of Regional Disparities in europe
Economic Geography, 2008Co-Authors: Gilles Duranton, Andres Rodriguezpose, Richard SandallAbstract:This article examines the association between one of the most basic institutional forms, the family, and a series of demographic, educational, social, and economic indicators across regions in Europe. Using Emmanuel Todd’s classification of medieval European family systems, we identify potential links between family types and Regional Disparities in household size, educational attainment, social capital, labor participation, sectoral structure, wealth, and inequality. The results indicate that medieval family structures seem to have influenced European Regional Disparities in virtually every indicator that we considered. That these links remain, despite the influence of the modern state and population migration, suggests that such structures are either extremely resilient or in the past were internalized within other social and economic institutions as they developed.
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family types and the persistence of Regional Disparities in europe
Bruges European Economic Research Papers, 2007Co-Authors: Gilles Duranton, Andres Rodriguezpose, Richard SandallAbstract:This paper examines the association between one of the most basic institutional forms, the family, and a series of demographic, educational, social, and economic indicators across regions in Europe. Using Emmanuel Todd’s classification of medieval European family systems, we identify potential links between family types and Regional Disparities in household size, educational attainment, social capital, labour participation, sectoral structure, wealth, and inequality. The results indicate that medieval family structures seem to have influenced European Regional Disparities in virtually every indicator considered. That these links remain, despite the influence of the modern state and population migration, suggests that either such structures are extremely resilient or else they have in the past been internalised within other social and economic institutions as they developed.
