Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-152).

The aim of this research is to analyze empirically the danger of a Dutch Disease Effect with respect to a boom in the tourism sector in Croatia in the long run. Due to the brief time series of data available for Croatia, we employ for our econometric work data on more than 100 countries of the world over the period 1970-2000. In a first step the general, long-run relationship between tourism, growth, the real exchange rate, taxation and the manufacturing sector is looked at in a cross country setting. A panel data framework gives the possibility to counter check the acquired results. This second approach also allows to control for reverse causality, nonlinearity and interactive effects, applying a more complex methodology. It is found that, at least in the long run, there is no danger of a Dutch Disease Effect with respect to a boom in the tourism sector - and thus, no fear of a 'Croatian Disease'! Countries with higher income from tourism tend not only to have higher economic growth rates but also higher levels of investment and secondary school enrolment. Countries dependent on tourism prove to be rather outward oriented, having low levels of real exchange rate distortion and its variability. Finally, tourism does not seem to lead to a contraction of the manufacturing sector. (author's abstract)

This dissertation investigates the question: why do some regions industrialize and others do not? The research focuses on industrialization in Germany in the second half of the 19th century when the country adopted British steam technology and built a dense railroad network. The central thesis is that the adoption of steam powered machinery created incentives for manufacturers to concentrate production in central areas and around coal fields. The railroad boom lowered trade costs and thereby made it feasible to serve distant markets from these central locations. As a result, the Ruhr Area gained industrial employment in large numbers while regions in Bavaria and East Elbia lost their traditional manufacturing centers. Specifically, the first chapter finds that increases in the use of steam power led to a rise in the spatial concentration of manufacturing industries and higher co-location with coal mining. The second chapter compares the effects of access to coal and access to consumer markets on regional industrial employment to separately identify the impact of coal fields and the population centers that formed around them. The results show that access to coal was more important than access to consumer markets for the location of metal production and textiles. The third chapter shows that improvements in market access had a negative impact on manufacturing growth in regions with below median per capita manufacturing employment, but for regions above this mark the impact was positive. This means that the transportation improvements did not support the dispersion of industry but instead contributed to the geographic concentration of industrialization. Together the chapters show that the adoption of steam powered technology in manufacturing and transportation raised the spatial concentration of manufacturing and help to explain why industrial development was not more widespread in Germany.

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This thesis addresses the unresolved question of whether industrialisation helps or hinders progress in the peripheral regions of developing economies. Devon is seen as a 'sample of space' within which the breaking down of regional identities by changes in the Victorian transport infrastructure can be monitored. As the county's fortunes were thus primarily dependent upon the course of development in the wider national economy the survey of changes in economic activity within Devon is concerned mainly with relating internal adjustments to external pressures and opportunities. The balance of these appears to have resulted in a demand 'leakage* from the county's economy, and a net outwards flow of migrants, for there was a chronic deficit in Devon's balance of payments with the rest of Britain. This was probably exacerbated by an outflow of capital. But the relative contraction of employment within the county took a selective form in accordance with the developing specialisation of activity across the' national economic space. On the evidence of comparative wages in agriculture it seems that direct external demand was of central importance to the elimination of spatial differentials after 1870. But for the county as a whole there was no narrowing of the large shortfall between local wages and the national average before 1914. Sectors that benefited from external demand were few in number and their linkages with the rest of Devon's economy were too weak to stimulate general growth in the county, and the relatively unchanging distribution of demand throughout the nation that this refle-cted helped to maintain residual regional barriers to internal adjustment. The British economy was mature enough to pull the least developed regions away from pre-industrial levels of poverty but there was no inherent tendency to eliminate the broad tail which lagged behind the cutting edge of industrialisation.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science, March 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 270-288).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Rennes 1, 1993. / "URA CNRS 1240." Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-495).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-204).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 208-223).