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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Economic Convergence"”.
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Impact of religion and religious differences on political and economic cooperation between countries
Studies on economic and political cooperation of countries generally focus on the effects of factors such as geographical proximity, political regime type, and the different fiscal and monetary policies, among others. The impact of religious affiliation, however, stayed mainly as theory. The clash …
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Macroeconomic Indicators of Working Class Voter Abstention in US Presidential Elections, 1948-2004
… the causal relationship between the strategic economic interdependence advanced by Western democracies after WWII and the "puzzle of participation" in US presidential elections. More specifically, I seek to illustrate first how economic convergence within the West and then the transition from …
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Historical Reflections on Religion, Finance and Economic Development
… investigates the role of religion in historical economic and financial development. Attention is directed to Ireland and the Netherlands, focusing mainly on the 1861–1911 period. Both polities provide an interesting testing ground for religion-related inquiry: Ireland where a Catholic majority …
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Essays on integration vs. segmentation of financial markets
… jumbo approval rates in low-income counties. The economic magnitude is large: a county with a \$10,000 lower median income is associated with, on average, a 6 percentage-point (or 11.77\%) higher jumbo loan approval rate compared to a county with a \$10,000 higher median income. The results are …
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Transmedia consumption experiences: consuming and co-creating interrelated stories across media
… of intensifying socio-cultural, technologic, and economic convergence (Jenkins 2006, Dena 2004). Transmedia storytelling, aesthetic and product of this convergence culture, is the systematic dispersal of narrative elements across multitude of media for the purpose of creating a unified and …
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Economic backwardness and state led development: the origin, character and fate of the Soviet model
… an era of state led development as a response to economic backwardness. The Soviet model had already ceased to inspire similar state led approaches in the rest of the world but now it demonstrably failed in its leaders' self-defined mission - `to catch up and overtake' the advanced west. The …
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Energy Transitions, Economic Growth and Structural Change: Portugal in a Long-run Comparative Perspective
… and how the relationship between energy and economic growth changed with the transition from an industrial to a service society. A unique dataset of energy quantities and prices reveals that Portugal´s transition to fossil fuels and high-energy quantities was exceptionally late in comparison …
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Modelling the Economic and Political Factors of Optimum Currency Area Theory for the Adoption of the Single Currency Project in Gulf Cooperation Council
… a long time had a regional policy to create an economic as well as a political bloc. The theory of optimum currency areas provides the economic foundation for this research. Previous studies focused largely on the eight prerequisites of an optimum currency area. Political events in the Gulf …
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Freedom of movement: Unequal intra-European Union migration due to economic and linguistic barriers
… question is how do language skills as opposed to economic deterrents impact EU migration to Southern and Eastern European member states? Part of the issue is that the European Union has twenty-four official languages, and citizens may choose to study only a couple of these languages to learn as it …
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Governance Territoriale Comunitaria e Sistemi di Pianificazione. Riflessioni sull'Allargamento ad Est dell'Unione Europea
… caused by its achievements in terms of economic integration. The discourse underlying EU territorial interventions and the set of tools and actions explicitly or implicitly focusing on territorial goals is usually referred at as European spatial planning. At the same time, the fall of …