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On the relevance of exports for regional output growth in China
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2013
Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688451
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On the relevance of exports for regional output growth in China
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2013
Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691629
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On the Relevance of Exports for Regional Output Growth in China
Dreger, Christian - 2013
Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088137
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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented Solow model
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387127
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Dynamics, Space, and Regional Inequality in Provincial China : A Case Study of Guangdong Province
Liao, Felix - 2012
This paper investigates the regional inequality in one of the most developed provinces in China, Guangdong, from 1979 to 2009 and follows the multi-scale and multi-mechanism framework. We have found a new round of intensifying inequality in Guangdong since the early 2000s, which is attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096100
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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Impacts of Intangible Assets on Regional Growth and Unemployment
Dreger, Christian - 2013
The paper studies the impact of intangible assets on economic growth and unemployment from a regional perspective. The familiar relationship between changes in the unemployment rate and economic growth – known as Okun's law – is taken as a workhorse of the analysis and estimated for the 27...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073795
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2010
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the economic performance across regions. However, empirical evidence for this claim has been not very convincing, probably due to low quality of the data. This paper provides a robustness analysis of alternative human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608051
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Scale, Agglomeration, and Regional Inequality in Provincial China
Wei, Yehua Dennis; Yu, Danlin; Chen, Xiaojin - 2011
This study analyses regional development in provincial China through a case study of Jiangsu following the multi-scale and multi-mechanism framework. We have revealed a trend of increasing regional inequality and find it is mainly a result of the rapid development of Sunan (Southern Jiangsu),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177504
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Domesticating Globalization, New Economic Spaces, and Regional Polarization in Guangdong Province, China
Lu, Lachang; Wei, Yehua Dennis - 2015
Concerns over the effects of globalisation and liberalisation have intensified the debates over the trajectories and underlying sources of regional inequality. This paper attempts to link macro studies of regional inequality to micro studies of local development and to expand the research on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197516