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Development Gaps in the Sud Muntenia Region of Romania
Iordan, Marioara; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Ghizdeanu, Ion; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Development gaps are a common feature throughout the regions of the European Union, and Romania is no exception. Despite all the political and financial efforts, the convergence process is lengthy and complex, and the gaps with the deepest economic and social roots are the most difficult to be...
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Consumption Expenditures in Economic Impact Studies: An Application to University Students
Hermannsson, Kristinn; McGregor, Peter; Swales, Kim - European Regional Science Association - 2013
We raise the issue of how appropriately to attribute economic impact to consumption expenditures. Despite the salience of the topic for applied economics it has not received much explicit attention in recent literature. In Input-Output analysis consumption expenditures are either treated as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740414
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The Urban Hierarchy Unraveled: A Meta-Analysis on the Rank-Size Rule
Groot, Henri De; Mulder, Peter; Kamphorst, Marten - European Regional Science Association - 2014
This paper presents a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the Rank-Size Rule for the size distribution of cities. Our analysis covers 1669 estimates derived from 59 studies. As such, our analysis presents a substantial extension of an earlier meta-analysis by Nitsch (2004) performed on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075837
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Types of Demographic and Economic Development of Russian Cities in Post-Soviet Period
Limonov, Leonid; Kauffmann, Albrecht - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Types of Demographic and Economic Development of Russian Cities in Post-Soviet Period Albrecht Kauffmann, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Germany Leonid Limonov, Higher School of Economics-St.Petersburg, International Centre for Social and Economic Research «Leontief Centre»,...
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European Cluster Networks ? Insights from 7th EU Framework Program
Titze, Mirko; Brachert, Matthias - European Regional Science Association - 2014
&D projects in Europe. Its main objective is to initiate cross-border complementarities in order to exploit knowledge resources … and to conduct large scale research. Within the EU FPs the applicants are free to choose partners from all over Europe … small actors have been chosen as partners in collaborative R&D networks across Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076020
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The innovation and its territorial factors: An analysis in the micro-regions of São Paulo.
Mascarini, Suelene - European Regional Science Association - 2014
This paper aims to examine empirically, through the application of the Knowledge Production Function, how the innovation in micro-region of São Paulo can be affected for some territorial factors. In the literature, and assumed here, the innovative results, measured by patents, are linked to the...
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Benchmark Value Added Chains and Regional Clusters in German R&D Intensive Industries
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Titze, Mirko - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Strong regional clusters are increasingly seen as a response to economic globalization by policy makers and regional development agencies. The reasoning of competitive advantages of countries and regions with enterprises organized in clusters has mainly been popularized by Porter (1990, 1998,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132082
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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area: the impact of centrality and peripherality
Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...
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Spatial evolution of economic activity in Russia: New economic geography perspective
Kolomak, Evgeniya - European Regional Science Association - 2014
We study the dynamics of inter-regional economic disparities for a number of development characteristics, test the hypothesis of the new economic geography and connect the results with the prediction of the bell curve describing spatial concentration over time. The results of our analysis...
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