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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? : an empirical analysis for Germany
Bode, Eckhardt - 2001
Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477128
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The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth : a spatial panel approach
Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015
The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
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Industrial clusters as source of prospering regions? : economic structure and regional performance 1996-2005
Kubis, Alexander; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2010
within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209009
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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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Regionale Verteilung raumwirksamer finanzieller Staatshilfen im Kontext regionalwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung
Plankl, Reiner - 2012
Der Arbeitsbericht beschreibt unter Bezug auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung die regionale Verteilung regionalwirtschaftlich relevanter raumwirksamer finanzieller Staatshilfen in der Förderperiode 1995 bis 2008. Betrachtungseinheiten sind die Bundesländer sowie die ländlichen und nicht...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477120
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Regional fiscal equalization in Germany : a simultaneous equation approach to assess the economic effects of fiscal policy
Eberle, Jonathan - 2019
Regional fiscal equalization in Germany aims to reduce fiscal disparities by allocating financial resources to less promising regions in order to support the supply of public goods. This paper aims to analyse secondary economic effects of regional fiscal equalization on several economic in- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981106
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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey
Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014
"Development" isn't only an economic notion but also it consist of so many meanings such as social, cultural manners, production and consumption ways. During the development process, development units could be growth in vary times and space. At this point what has to be told, which sector and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487841
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The regional effects of professional sports franchises : causal evidence from four European football leagues
Brachert, Matthias - 2018
We use the locational pattern of clubs in four major professional football leagues in Europe to test the causal effect of changes in premier league membership on regional employment and output growth at the NUTS 3 level. We rely on the relegation mode of the classical round-robin tournament in...
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Regionale Arbeitsmärkte in der „Großen Rezession“ : Dynamik regionaler Arbeitslosenquoten in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien im Krisenjahr 2009
Reiner, Christian - 2010
Regional labour markets in the „Great Recession“: The evolution of regional unemployment rates in Germany, France and the United Kingdom in 2009. Contrary to the already encompassing literature on the differentiated effects of the “Great Recession” on states, the article takes a regional...
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