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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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Roads to Prosperity or Bridges to Nowhere? Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Public Infrastructure Investment

Leduc, Sylvain; Wilson, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We examine the dynamic macroeconomic effects of public infrastructure investment both theoretically and empirically, using a novel data set we compiled on various highway spending measures. Relying on the institutional design of federal grant distributions among states, we construct a measure of...

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Spatio-temporal Analysis of Regional Systems: A Multiregional Spatial Vector Autoregressive Model for Spain

RAMAJO, JULIAN; MARQUEZ, MIGUEL A.; HEWINGS, GEOFFREY J.D. - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...

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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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Incentives and Outcomes: China's Environmental Policy

Deng, Yongheng; Morck, Randall; Wu, Jing; Huang, Jun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000-2009 data, we find that, while spending on environmental infrastructure has visible positive environmental impact, city spending is strongly tilted towards transportation...

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Theory and empirics of horizontal and spatial integration of local communal services

Czako, Katalin; Poreisz, Veronika - European Regional Science Association - 2013

There are three parts of our paper. Firstly, it gives an overview about the goals and factors which affect the integration of local communal services. Horizontal integration means joining the various individual service providers, such as water supply and sewage, communal waste, district heating,...

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Interregional Inequality and Federal Expenditures and Transfers in Russia

Torbenko, Alexander - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The paper considers the influence of federal government expenditures and transfers on interregional convergence in … period in Russian regions there existed un- conditional beta-convergence, poor regions grew faster than rich ones. This …. Comparing our results to the results of previous research the process of interregional convergence in Russia can be seen. In the …

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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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