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The Territorial Dynamics Of Innovation In China And India
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Storper, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … and technology. Indian innovation hubs also generate positive knowledge spillovers to other regions. …
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Infrastructure and regional growth in the European Union
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084543
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Regional Convergence in the European Community
Gouyette, Claudine; Neven, Damien J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper assesses convergence in output per head across regions in the European Community (EC), for the period 1975 … strong differences in the pattern of convergence across sub-periods and across subsets of regions. If Southern Europe seemed … to catch up in the early 1980s, it stagnated, at best, in the second part of the 1980s. The regions in Northern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789075
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Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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Can the economic impact of political decentralisation be measured?
Ezcurra, Roberto; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper examines whether, given the increasing salience of subnational governments, political decentralisation has an impact on overall economic performance. It uses panel data analyses in order to determine the association between a number of the different indices of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854514
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Economies of Scale in European Manufacturing Revisited
Henriksen, Espen; Steen, Frode; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing, employing a more disaggregated data set than has been used in earlier analyses. We aim to separate externalities from common business cycle effects. Fifteen European manufacturing industries in Germany, France, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667100
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Productivity Growth, Human Capital, and Technology Spillovers: Nonparametric Evidence for EU Regions
Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
NUTS2 regions in 17 European Union member countries between 1992 and 2006. It devotes particular attention to measuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083265
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
regions in the world. We then use the model to study the effect of a spatial shock. We focus on the example of a rise in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252617
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Internal Geography and External Trade: regional disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
A'Hearn, Brian; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
engineering) to locate in regions with a large domestic market, i.e. in the North. From 1945 onwards trade growth and European …
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Urbanization and Structural Transformation
Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper presents new evidence on urbanization using sub-county data for the United States from 1880-2000 and municipality data for Brazil from 1970-2000. We show that the two central stylized features of population growth for cities - Gibrat's Law and a stable population distribution - are...
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