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Benefits and Challenges of Integrating South and Southeast Asia

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - CESifo - 2012

In recent decades, Southeast Asian economies have prospered through an outward-oriented strategy, through intra-regional integration under the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) initiative and through participating in the East Asian production networks. In the 1970-80’s, South...

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Lisbon Agenda, Regional Innovation System and the New EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2011

The EU’s cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth....

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Application of Regionally Varying Additionality Degrees in the Practice of EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2010

The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions,...

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The Apple doesn't Fall far from the Tree: Location of Start-Ups Relative to Incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

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Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China’s Economic Geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2010

China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters...

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Brown Growth, Green Growth, and the Efficiency of Urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …’). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time (‘green growth’) the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …

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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe: On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2014

to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis … period, we find that the degree and nature of regional urbanization and specialization are important drivers of the …

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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …

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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Marchand, Beyza Ural - CESifo - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and of the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative...

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The IOC's Midas Touch: Summer Olympics and City Growth

Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - CESifo - 2013

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...

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