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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007665
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Long-term Issues for Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–08 underlined the importance of maintaining fiscal space and fiscal sustainability. Even though many Asian economies implemented fiscal stimulus policies during the crisis period, their fiscal conditions generally improved rapidly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134336
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Long-term Issues for Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–08 underlined the importance of maintaining fiscal space and fiscal sustainability. Even though many Asian economies implemented fiscal stimulus policies during the crisis period, their fiscal conditions generally improved rapidly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134367
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494224
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The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree: Location of Start-Ups Relative to Incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090486
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090571
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The Extension of Clusters: Differences-in-Difference Evidence from the Bavarian State-Wide Cluster Policy
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the "Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090576
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Direct and indirect effects of new businesses on regional employment - An empirical analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We analyze different types of effects that new businesses may have on regional employment. We introduce different measures for employment change by separating employment change in incumbent businesses and employment change in new businesses. There are pronounced differences between regions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090591
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The Contribution of New Businesses to Regional Employment - An Empirical Analysis of the Direct Employment Effect
Fritsch, Michael; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090604
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Asia’s Post-Global Financial Crisis Adjustment : A Model-Based Dynamic Scenario Analysis
Kawai, Masahiro; Zhai, Fan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Using a dynamic global general equilibrium model, the paper assesses the short- and medium-term impacts of the global financial crisis on Asian economies and the implications of post-crisis adjustment in emerging East Asia (EEA) for the world economy. The analysis suggests that EEA is unlikely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278041