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Deregulation and productivity: selection or within-firm effect?

Shepotylo, Oleksandr - European Regional Science Association - 2014

modify the methodology in order to study changes in productivity distribution within an industry over time. We start with the … Melitz model of an industry with heterogeneous firms. Unlike in the original model, we allow for productivity distribution to … change over time as a result of deregulation. By looking at changes in productivity distribution of manufacturing and …

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Child Poverty in a Regional Perspective: A Study of Sweden 1990 and 2010

Rauhut, Daniel; Lingarde, Svante - European Regional Science Association - 2013

regional share of single parents, regional sickness leave, regional mean personal income and mean regional transfers per person …

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An Anaylsis in Order to Measure of Regional Development Agencies Performance and Their Impacts to the Regional Growth in Turkey

Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alı - European Regional Science Association - 2014

"Development" isn't only an economic notion but also it consist of so many meanings such as social, cultural manners, production and consumption ways. During the development process, development units could be growth in vary times and space. At this point what has to be told, which sector and...

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Model of financing regional development - Polish versus Western European regions

Poproch, Aleksandra; Zaleski, Janusz; Zbigniew MogiÂ³a - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The Policy of regional development consists of two crucial components: objectives and the system of their achieving. Financial resources comprise one of the main parts of the latter. The aim of the paper is to present the system of financing the socio-economic regional development in Poland...

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Regional Development through port-maritime cluster formulation in the wider Piraeus area: Innovation and extroversion as an antidote to crisis

Pardali, Angeliki; Kounoupas, Evangelos; Lainos, Iasonas - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Further to being the countryÂ¢s most important port, Piraeus has been a traditional centre attracting organisations related either directly or indirectly with port or shipping activities. The geographical concentration of enterprises in the wider Piraeus area is attributed not just to port...

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Regional Accessibility in Europe: changes in road infrastructure 1955-2012

Stelder, Dirk - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper discusses the road accessibility for European cities and regions over the period 1955-2012. For this period a historical database of European roads networks has been constructed covering all EU27 countries. This database enables to evaluate to what extent EU infrastructure policy has...

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Regional Development and Decentralization ? Two Options to Overcome Lack of Funding

Alibegovic, Dubravka Jurlina; Slijepcevic, Suncana; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Decentralization can be generally described as a process in which selected functions are assigned to sub-national units. The literature identifies number of positive consequences of decentralization which all lead to better satisfaction of citizens? needs for public services. Although...

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Industry Clustering: Branding Changes or Substantial Differences

Hobbs, John; Walsh, Michael; Moloney, Richard - European Regional Science Association - 2013

In economic policy the term ?industry cluster? is often used to explain geographical concentrations of economic and innovation activities. The prominence of the cluster idea that was in particular triggered by Porter (1990) and Enright (1996) is not too surprising since ?both firms keen to...

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Russian Securities Market: Prospects for Regional Development

Lvova, Nadezhda; Darushin, Ivan - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The Russian securities market is the largest in CIS. What are its prospects in the context of regional development? According to World Economic Forum, Russia ranked 39th among the most developed financial systems in 2012. Weak competitive positions of the Russian financial sector are mainly...

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Long term impact of a major infrastructure project: the port of Gioia Tauro

Genco, Mario; Sirtori, Emanuela; Vignetti, Silvia - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper illustrates the story of the Port of Gioia Tauro, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the period 1994-1998, but whose origin dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. It draws from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the...

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