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Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth -- Evidence from West Germany Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Funke, Michael
Niebuhr, Annekatrin
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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 that the model might help to explain regional growth patterns.
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Article Paper Michael Funke & Annekatrin Niebuhr, 2005.
"Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth-Evidence from West Germany ,"
Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers
20503, Hamburg University, Department of Economics.
[Downloadable!] Michael Funke & Annekatrin Niebuhr, 2005.
"Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth-Evidence from West Germany ,"
Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers
20501, Hamburg University, Department of Economics.
[Downloadable!] Funke, Michael & Niebuhr, Annekatrin, 2001.
"Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany ,"
Discussion Paper Series
26141, Hamburg Institute of International Economics.
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