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Innovation and Regional Growth in Mexico: 2000-2010
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Peralta, Edna MaríaVillarreal - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014
This paper looks at the factors driving regional growth in Mexico, paying special attention to the potentially growth-enhancing role of innovation and innovation policy. The analysis combines innovation variables with indicators linked to the formation of adequate social conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901466
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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe : On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization
Brakman, Steven - 2015
Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033744
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Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches
Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008
This paper analyses the growth e®ects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298662
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Constraining and enabling factors of a successful regional policy in Europe
Fratesi, Ugo - 2024
Recent papers show that the impact of Cohesion Policy is not uniform in space but larger, smaller or insignificant depending on the regions. These outcomes mostly depend on the characteristics of each territory (conditioning factors). This paper reviews them and investigates, through descriptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014633295
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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation: Is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?
Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - 2013
Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319209
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Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China's Economic Geography
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2010
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135264
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A Spatial Perspective on European Integration : Heterogeneous Welfare and Migration Effects from the Single Market and the Brexit
Henkel, Marcel - 2017
of trade barriers in Europe has led to a more homogeneous spatial distribution of economic activity. With regard to the … Brexit, we find moderate welfare losses for the UK of -0.44 percent in the most pessimistic scenario while continental Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963382
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Resilience, Supply Chains and the Great Recession
Brakman, Steven - 2017
using gross-export data. Regarding value added measures we find, in general, no effect. Only if we separate out Europe do we … find that the trough in Europe occurs about 0.17 years later and the recovery (for the countries that have recovered) about … 1.55 years later. Moreover, the duration of the decline in Europe is about 4 months longer and of the recovery about 17 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953709
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TransNIEMO : Economic Impact Analysis Using a Model of Consistent Interregional Economic and Network Equilibria
Choo, JoongKoo - 2014
We describe a model that integrates a multi-regional input-output model of the U.S. (50 states and the District of Columbia) with the national highway network. Interstate commodity shipments are placed on a congestible highway network. Simulations of major choke-point disruptions redirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059029
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the … US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are “too small” to follow Zipf's law …
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