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If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...
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Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...
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economic growth in Poland over the period Q2, 1993 – Q2, 2003. …
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The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique … to survey the recent development of municipal finance: Britain, Germany, Poland and Switzerland. This paper firstly …
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In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this …, and people in cities were more educated than people in villages regardless of their religion. The case of interwar Poland …
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. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5 percent for Poland and …
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The past decade has witnessed an increase in populist movements across the world. Some of those movements have gained … looking at the case of Poland which according to several recent studies has experienced the highest level of populist … rhetorics in recent years. Indeed, when the new populist government took power, between 2015-2019, Poland experienced a major …
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The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
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Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …
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