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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...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409398

Tourism and regional growth in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Marrocu, Emanuela - 2013

The paper aims at analysing 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 carried out for the period 1999-2009 and it is based on a...

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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

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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Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2021

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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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Public capital and institutions' quality in the Italian regions

Aresu, Federico; Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - In: Journal of regional science 63 (2023) 5, pp. 1284-1308

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Technological Diffusion, Spatial Spillovers and Regional Convergence in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2012

convergence of GDP per worker observed across the European regions, in the absence of data on regional TFP. Second, the spatial … regional convergence in Europe. As for the first issue, our aim is to assess whether the convergence observed across European … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …

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

Funke, Michael - 2000

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