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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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Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate resource value in a model on the optimal size of nations and show that regional wealth correlates positively...
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This study analyzes how state capacity shapes the local impact of national policies by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the regional expansion of the state. It uses the local discontinuity created by the boundary of the largest peasant rebellion in 18th century Russia where the state...
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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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economic growth in Poland over the period Q2, 1993 – Q2, 2003. …
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We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism...
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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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