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Continuous-Time Modelling with Spatial Dependence

Oud, Johan H.L.; Folmer, Henk; Patuelli, Roberto; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

(Spatial) panel data are routinely modelled in discrete time (DT). However, there are compelling arguments for continuous time (CT) modelling of (spatial) panel data. Particularly, most social processes evolve in CT, so that statistical analysis in DT is an oversimplification, gives an...

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How Long Does it Take to Become an Entrepreneurial Society - The Case of German Convergence in Self-Employment

Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching …-up process is observed for East German regions during the period under study. However, the general convergence between East and … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. …

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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area: the impact of centrality and peripherality

Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...

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Does Connectivity Impact Innovation Performance in Rural Regions?

Wassmann, Pia; Schiller, Daniel; Thomsen, Stephan - European Regional Science Association - 2014

There is a broad consensus in the literature in that R&D is a precondition for innovation and in turn, for economic growth. On the regional level, this implies that regions with a high stock of R&D should reveal better results when it comes to economic performance. This presumption has lead...

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