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What can the EMU's peripheral countries learn from regional growth?
Aiginger, Karl; Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013
The experiences of 259 regions in 21 European countries with within country GDP per capita and labour productivity growth suggest that variables associated with pro-active, growth oriented strategies are consistently more important predictors of successful regional development than variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424528
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Growth dynamics in regional systems of technological activities : a SVAR approach
Duschl, Matthias; Brenner, Thomas - 2013
This paper analyses the causal relationships in regional technological systems within a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework. Applying a data-driven identification strategy based on Independent Component Analysis, it shows how the regional growth dynamics of economic, research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303809
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The causal economic effects of Olympic Games on host regions
Firgo, Matthias - 2019
This paper studies the effects of hosting Olympic Games on the regional economy in the short- and long-run. For identification, runners-up in the Olympic bidding process are used to construct the counterfactual for Olympic host regions. In the short-run, hosting Summer Olympics boosts regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134046
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The Causal Economic Effects of Olympic Games on Host Regions
Firgo, Matthias - 2020
This paper studies the effects of hosting Olympic Games on the regional economy in the short and long run. For identification, runners-up in the Olympic bidding process are used to construct the counterfactual for Olympic host regions. In the short run, hosting Summer Olympics boosts regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846295
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Unconditional convergence in currency unions : an analysis of European regions from 1991 to 2009
Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013
We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous … studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely … question the focus of the traditional literature on average (beta-)convergence and suggest substantial non-linearities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424527
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More publicly funded research, more knowledge spillovers, more economic growth? : an empirical analysis for German regions
Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas; Mitze, Timo - 2018
This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research on regional technological progress and economic growth. We adopt a system approach and investigate the effects on all regional input factors and output by means of a flexible spatial panel VAR (SpPVAR) model. This allows us to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794063
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More bucks, more growth, more justice? : the effects of regional structural funds on regional economic growth and convergence in Germany
Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of the German structure program "Joint Task for the Improvement of Regional Economic Structures" (GRW) on regional economic growth. The paper extends the existing literature by several aspects. First of all, using the popular augmented Solow model by Mankiw et al....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444217
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Analysing the spatio-temporal diffusion of economic change - advanced statistical approach and exemplary application
Wardenburg, Sven; Brenner, Thomas - 2021
This article presents a spatio-temporal panel vector-autoregressive approach (SptpVAR) as an extended spatial econometric method for analysing spillover effects of regional economic change in time and space. The approach aims to extend the spatial dimension of SpVAR models by capturing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437170