Browsing ECO Working Papers by Author "POELHEKKE, Steven"

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    Title: Urban Growth, Uninsured Risk and the Rural Origins of Aggregate Volatility  Author(s): POELHEKKE, Steven Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside the developed world since 1960. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic growth and job creation in most parts of the ...
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    Title: Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse  Author(s): VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; POELHEKKE, Steven Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth independent of initial income per capita, ...
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    Title: Do Amenities and Diversity Encourage City Growth? A Link Through Skilled Labor  Author(s): POELHEKKE, Steven Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The share of skilled workers in urban populations has steadily increased since 1970 in US metropolitan areas, but more in some cities than in others. A higher concentration of skills is a sought after asset for cities ...