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Threshold effects and regional economic growth – Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2001
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295576
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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth: Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000
The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295614
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Mapping China’s Time-Varying House Price Landscape
Funke, Michael - 2019
The recent increase in China's house prices at the national level masks tremendous variation at the city level – a … feature largely overlooked in the macroprudential literature. This paper measures the evolving heterogeneity in China's house … China's city-level housing price synchronization. The estimates indicate an increasing synchronization leading up to 2015 …
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