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Smart specialization and the manufacturing sector in the city regions of Hungary

Vas, Zsofia; Lengyel, Imre; Kano, Izabella Szakalne - European Regional Science Association - 2014

By today smart specialization has become a crucial part of the growth strategy of the European Union. Smart specialization is an innovative approach for the economic transformation of regions, a complex development strategy that builds on the unique characteristics and values of regions, and...

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An Alternative Interpretation of Regional Resilience: Evidence from Italy

Modica, Marco; Reggiani, Aura - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper provides a different interpretation of resilience on the light of a very well known empirical regularities that is Gibrat's Law. Gibrat's Law is a rule stating that the growth of a given entity (city, firm, income and so on) is independent on its size. Resilience, instead, is a...

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Economic and social resilience: an analysis for the Italians regions after 2007.

Martini, Barbara - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Resilience is a physical, engineering and ecological concept. Recently it has attracted attention from regional analyst and it could be a key aspect of the dynamic of spatial economic system (Reggiani et al., 2002), especially concerning how such system responds to shocks, disturbances, and...

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State Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Border Analysis

Ross, Amanda; Rohlin, Shawn - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper examines how differences in state bankruptcy laws, specifically the amount of the homestead exemption, affect business location decisions. We expand upon the literature by narrowing the geographic scope and focus on the amount of entrepreneurial activity within a few miles of the...

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Market Size, Productivity and Entrepreneurship in a Model a'la Melitz

Pokrovsky, Dmitry - European Regional Science Association - 2013

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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

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The entrepreneurial performance of the Central and Eastern European regions

Páger, Balázs - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The theoretical concepts about entrepreneurship have changed since the last three decades. It has become one of the … economy (Audretsch and Thurik 2001), it can be seen clearly those shifts which contributed to become entrepreneurship an … continue their economic activity. The entrepreneurship is influenced by those negative and positive factors (for example other …

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AMOEBA: An Agent-based Model Of Entrepreneurship and Business Activities

Pablo-Martí, Federico; García-Tabuenca, Antonio; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

In the attached file you can find an extended abstract an the preliminary mathematical apendix of the paper.

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Regional Transitions from Socialism to Entrepreneurship: Russia and Germany compared

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014

in the process of transition to a market-type economy. In this comparison entrepreneurship in West Germany is used as a … entrepreneurship and determinants of the decision to be self-employed in these two countries and their regions. While a number of …,et al.,2008). There is, however,hardly evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurship in detail and with comparison to other …

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Do Market-Based Tax Incentives Attract New Businesses? Evidence from the New Markets Tax Credit

Ross, Amanda; Wolf, Kaitlyn - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Policy makers at all levels of government believe that one of the key drivers of local economic growth is new businesses. Therefore, governments design policy with the intention of attracting businesses with the hopes that this will create future growth in struggling areas. Over the past few...

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