If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better … effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the “Cluster Initiative” introduced in 1999 by the … Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state …

Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output …

markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone’s southern countries and France unresolved. The paper …

, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper with more noise in the … competitiveness. …

and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we formulate a theoretical model of wage bargaining in an open economy and …

-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …

its competitiveness and decreased exports towards its European trading partners. Our findings do not provide empirical …