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Application of regionally varying additionality degrees in the practice of EU cohesion policy
Nam, Chang Woon; Wamser, Georg - 2010
The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions,...
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Lisbon agenda, regional innovation system and the new EU cohesion policy
Woon Nam, Chang; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - 2011
The EU's cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth....
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Urban Shrinkage in Eastern Germany
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina - 2015
This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...
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Urban Resurgence as a Consumer City: A Case Study for Weimar in Eastern Germany
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina - 2017
Weimar achieved urban recovery as a ‘consumer city’ with sub-brandings like a population magnet with a high living-quality, a cultural city with touristic attractions, and a university city. Its intensive cultural promotion policies combined with urban regeneration programs have contributed...
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Gallup Democracy in Exercising the NATO Membership Option : The Cases of Finland and Sweden
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2022
The paper asks whether the exercising of the NATO membership option is justified for Finland and Sweden in the light of …. The Turkish intervention in the membership process after the membership applications of Finland and Sweden were delivered … towards the membership. In both countries, the majority of people turned to favor the membership within 2-3 months. Finland …
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Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
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Dynamic Mergers Effects on R&D Investments and Drug Development across Research Phases in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Siebert, Ralph; Tian, Zhili - 2020
Pharmaceutical firms spend increasing amounts in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), which raises the question of whether sufficient investment is left after mergers to further develop firms’ internal drug development capability. We evaluate the effects of M&As on firms’ post-merger R&D...
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Heterogeneous Merger Impacts on Competitive Outcomes
Siebert, Ralph - 2017
Mergers realize heterogeneous competitive effects on profits, production, and prices. To date, it is unclear whether differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms’ technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger studies conventionally assume that, conditional...
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The Impact of Horizontal Mergers on Market Structure: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry
Siebert, Ralph - 2016
The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the “ease of entry” argument in merger evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of firms in the markets. We empirically test this aspect of...
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