Möller, Joachim; Tubadji, Annie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975 2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...