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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? : the role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516933
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The Changing Pattern of Regional Convergence in Europe
Tondl, Gabriele - 1998
The article provides an assessment of the regional convergence process between the Western European regions since the … 1950s. Two sets of issues are addressed: (a) Is there sufficient evidence of regional convergence? If so, has the speed of … convergence changed over time and is this speed satisfactory. (b) Is convergence a phenomenon limited to the core EC regions as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212593
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The Changing Pattern of Regional Convergence in Europe
Tondl, Gabriele - 1998
The article provides an assessment of the regional convergence process between the Western European regions since the … 1950s. Two sets of issues are addressed: (a) Is there sufficient evidence of regional convergence? If so, has the speed of … convergence changed over time and is this speed satisfactory. (b) Is convergence a phenomenon limited to the core EC regions as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212600
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After crisis scenarios for CEECs : alternative evolutions of structural adjustments
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea - 2014
social cohesion scenario displays less effectiveness in fostering convergence processes. These results may drive future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503537
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Regional development and creativity
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2012
The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516047
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Territorial capital and regional growth : increasing returns in cognitive knowledge use
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378339
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Smile-and-go : regional performance through global value chains in Europe
Capello, Roberta; Dellisanti, Roberto - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 103 (2024) 2, pp. 1-10
By applying the smile curve concept to regional value added growth rather than to levels, the paper claims that local value-added growth increases when a region is specialised in scarce natural resources or scarce human skills within a GVC. Under these circumstances, in fact, the region can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632715
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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? : The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001781239
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Tourism and Regional Growth in Europe
Paci, Raffaele - 2013
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of domestic and international tourism on the economic growth process for 179 regions in ten European countries, which are highly representative of total tourism flows. The econometric analysis is performed for the period 1999-2009 and is based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081170
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Territorial Capital and Regional Growth
Capello, Roberta - 2009
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157460