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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...

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Economic Growth Across Chinese Provinces : In Search of Innovation-Driven Gains

Funke, Michael - 2009

In this paper we analyse the impact of R&D on total factor productivity across Chinese provinces. We introduce innovations explicitly into a production function and evaluate their contribution to economic growth in 1993 - 2006. The empirical results highlight the importance and the interaction...

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Economic Growth Across Space and Time : Subprovincial Evidence from Mainland China

Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael; Wang, Jue - 2008

kernel estimator. A set of explanatory variables is then introduced, and several regressions are run to test for conditional-convergence …

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How efficient is the East German economy? : an exploration with micro data

Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...

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Economic growth across space and time : subprovincial evidence from mainland China

Curran, Declan (contributor); Funke, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth : evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth : evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael - 2000

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Growth and convergence in a two-region model of unified Germany

Funke, Michael; Strulik, Holger - 1999

The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of unified Germany … derives fiscal policy rules which establish convergence of regional output per capita and convergence of regional human wealth …. To assess the speed of convergence the model is calibrated with German data. Given a fiscal policy rule that is …

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A convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth

Funke, Michael; Gronwald, Marc - 2009

In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the question what would happen if African countries were more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854442

A Convex Hull Approach to Counterfactual Analysis of Trade Openness and Growth

Funke, Michael - 2009

In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the question “what would happen if African countries were more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158311