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Regional Effects of Federal Tax Shocks
Hayo, Bernd; Uhl, Matthias - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find considerable variations: estimated output multipliers lie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543457
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Firm Growth and the Spatial Impact of Geolocated External Factors – Empirical Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Duschl, Matthias; Schimke, Antje; Brenner, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
In this paper the relationship between firm growth and external knowledge sources, such as related firms and universities, is studied. The spatial characteristics of these relationships are examined by geolocating firms into a more realistic relational space using travel time distances and using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358531
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Industry-specific firm growth and aggolmeration
Duschl, Matthias; Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial … impacts of agglomeration of related economic and knowledge generating activities are examined by using travel time distances … prospects tend to be hampered by the agglomeration of own-industry employment, but improved by proximate scientific activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141165
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Collision of lions and butterflies or mutual neglect - outside the Anglo-American domain, too? The publication and citation behaviour of economic geographers and geographical econo...
Sternberg, Rolf - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
This paper compares the publication and citation behaviour of economic geogra- phers and geographical economists. Based on a unique data set and consciously limited to researchers in the German-speaking world, empirical analyses show more parallels than expected. Convergence of scholars from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861804
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Proximity is a Social Process - A Conceptual Framework.
Dettmann, Anja; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2010
Spatial proximity is assumed in the literature to be a prerequisite and trigger for cooperation and, subsequently, innovation. This paper examines conceptually the role of proximity between actors for cooperation activities. Using theories and findings from social psychology and combining them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642532
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Happiness in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2004
This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685627
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Regional Labor Mobility of German University Graduates
Krabel, Stefan; Flöther, Choni - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
In this study we trace university graduates’ labor mobility when entering the labor market after graduation. We examine to what extent such mobility is determined by regional factors of the university region, personal characteristics of graduates as well as their field of study. Our analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872264
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Inflation Targeting and Regional Inflation Persistence: Evidence from Korea
Tillmann, Peter - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
The adoption of a credible monetary policy regime such as inflation targeting is known to reduce the persistence of inflation fluctuations. This conclusion, however, is derived from aggregate inflation or sectoral inflation rates, not from regional inflation data. This paper studies the regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018133
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Characteristics of Regional Industry-specific Employment Growth – Empirical Evidence for Germany
Duschl, Matthias; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
Regional growth dynamics significantly deviate from a normal process. Using industry-specific employment data for German regions, we find that the asymmetric Subbotin distribution is able to account properly for extreme positive and especially negative growth events. This result confirms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370948
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The Dynamics of Inter-Regional Collaboration – An Analysis of Co-Patenting
Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
The paper at hand investigates how co-patenting over distance develops when aggregating inventive activities on a regional level. That means, the object of analysis is a link between two regions in contrast to other studies, where links between two individuals or firms are investigated. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395799