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Regional Growth Under Financial and Political Constraints
Regional Growth Under Financial and Political Constraints
Regional Growth Under Financial and Political Constraints

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202103558
ISBN  
9798280713444
DDC  
320
저자명  
D'Amico, Leonardo.
서명/저자  
Regional Growth Under Financial and Political Constraints
발행사항  
[Sl] : Harvard University, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
317 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Glaeser, Edward;Stein, Jeremy.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약This thesis studies the problem of what keeps regions from growing. The first two chapters focus on the effects that the geographic mobility of financial capital has on regional growth. That is, they show what happens to the development of regions when financial capital can more easily move from regions where it is abundant to those where it is scarce.The first chapter studies the geographic integration of American banking markets between the early fifties and early eighties. We show that this financial integration was due to rising nominal rates during the Great Inflation---introducing what we term the ``nominal rate channel'' of financial integration---and to technological improvements in banks' access to national financial markets. Financial integration explains part of the higher growth of the South and West, relative to the average US state, as well as part of the relative decline of the Northern financial centers. This introduces a new framework to jointly study the dynamics of regional growth in an environment where workers and financial capital are both mobile across regions. The second chapter studies the geographic integration of mortgage markets in the US between 1933 and 1940. This integration was due to government policies that created a national mortgage market, facilitating mortgage capital to move from the financial centers to the rest of the country. Cities that had higher mortgage rates before the policy---and where mortgages became cheaper as a result of financial integration---saw higher growth in rates of homeownership, population, housing construction, and house prices. We also find effects on fertility, as young households witnessed higher birth rates in cities where mortgages became more affordable.The third chapter concerns why regional transfers to poor regions can fail to generate growth. I offer a theoretical explanation that hinges on local political economy constraints that arise when local governments are in charge of spending these transfers. Local governments' objective to be re-elected can be at odds with maximizing regional growth, transforming a policy aimed at sustaining productivity into one that depresses economic activity. This wedge comes about because local incumbent voters might rationally prefer subsidizing declining incumbent industries instead of attracting new ones, and I find evidence of these political constraints using data from the EU Cohesion policy.
일반주제명  
Political science
일반주제명  
Finance
키워드  
Regional growth
키워드  
Financial integration
키워드  
Capital mobility
키워드  
Political economy
기타저자  
Harvard University Economics
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12A.
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