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Knowledge flows, knowledge externalities and regional economic development

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

New knowledge generated by an economic agent in a region will tend over time to flow to other economic agents in the same region but also to economic agents in other regions. It is quite common in the literature to use the concept of knowledge spillovers for such knowledge flows, irrespective of...

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Entrepreneurship and Local Growth - a comparison of the U.S. and Sweden

Borgman, Benny; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

The U.S. is traditionally viewed as an economy driven by entrepreneurs, whereas the Swedish model is associated with high welfare ambitions and less focus on entrepreneurial activities. This paper seeks to empirically investigate whether the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the...

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Urban-Biased Growth : A Macroeconomic Analysis

Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...

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Productivity in the euro area: any evidence of convergence?

Sondermann, David - European Central Bank - 2012

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity … competitive environment, eventually facilitating economic convergence. JEL Classification: C33, O47, J24, L60, L80 …

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Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery

Chauvin, Sophie; Geis, André - European Central Bank - 2011

This paper first presents a comprehensive analysis of the significance of different transmission channels of the global economic and financial crisis to Sub-Saharan African countries. It then examines the repercussions of the crisis for the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) and its...

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Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery

Chauvin, Sophie; Geis, André - European Central Bank - 2011

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Breaking the cycle : a strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth in Burundi

Baghdadli, Ilhem (contributor) - 2008

A strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth -- Burundi's growth -- Agricultural recovery : food security and beyond -- Export crops : toward a significant contribution to growth -- Overcoming the main obstacles to growth

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Regional Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration

Unger, Kurt - 2005

capita income growth and migratory flows intensity. The most relevant results are the existence of income convergence over …

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Discrimination, migration, and economic outcomes : evidence from World War I

Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price - 2020

Are the costs of discrimination mainly borne by the targeted group or by society? This paper examines both individual and aggregate costs of ethnic discrimination. Studying Germans living in the U.S. during World War I, an event that abruptly downgraded their previously high social standing, we...

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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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