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STUDY ON THE CAUSES OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN ROMANIA

Talmaciu, Mihai; Mioara, Borza - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 93-99

Successive enlargements of the European Union have led to increasing heterogeneity of the development levels of the states and regions members. The Romanian development regions are among the most poorly economically developed European regions and are regarded as economies based on production...

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Entrepreneurship, growth, regional growth regimes

Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - 2015

We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...

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Persistence and change of regional new business formation in the national league table

Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - 2016

We investigate persistence and change of the levels of regional new business formation in West Germany over a period of thirty years. Our indicator is the position of a region in the national ranking. As indicated by previous studies, we generally find a rather high level of persistence and...

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Fritsch, Michael; Kubliņa, Sandra - 2016

This paper investigates the effect of related and unrelated variety on regional growth in West Germany. In particular, we analyze the role of regional absorptive capacity and new business formation for these effects. We find that West German regions benefit from both types of varieties. The...

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Entrepreneurship in the long-run : empirical evidence and historical mechanisms

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2022

We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development. What is the state of empirical research in this field,...

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CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN EUROPEAN UNION: EVIDENCE FOR BETA CONVERGENCE AMONG NEW EU MEMBER STATES

Mihuț, Ioana Sorina; Luțaș, Mihaela - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 262-271

Abstract: Convergence may be considered a central issue of the current economic literature, and not only, concentrating … characterize especially the emerging economies. Testing convergence within economies may serve as a useful instrument for the … validation of the economic growth models. While convergence was considered a defining element of the neoclassical growth models …

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Government spending composition in a simple model of Schumpeterian growth

Wiederhold, Simon - 2009

This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We construct a parsimonious Schumpeterian growth model in which demand from the public sphere can effectively alter the economy's rate of technological change. We incorporate results of...

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The impact of government procurement composition on private R&D activities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - 2011

This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving in-novation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government de-mand in high-tech industries...

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Creative industries, new business formation and regional economic growth

Piergiovanni, Roberta; Carree, Martin Anthony; … - 2009

The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are...

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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 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...

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