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Going NUTS : the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; … - 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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Specialization and convergence of industry-specific employment in Germany : a linear mixed-model approach with spatial components
Brenner, Thomas; Kauermann, Göran - In: Regional studies 50 (2016) 2, pp. 326-341
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The role of structural change in European regional productivity growth
O'Leary, Eoin; Webber, Don J. - In: Regional studies 49 (2015) 9, pp. 1548-1560
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Productivity growth across Spanish regions and industries : a production-frontier approach
Badunenko, Oleg; Romero-Ávila, Diego - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 7, pp. 1242-1262
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Does Germany have an East-West problem? : regional growth patterns in Germany since reunification
Maseland, Robbert K. J. - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 7, pp. 1161-1175
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Selective migration, regional growth and convergence : evidence from Italy
Fratesi, Ugo; Percoco, Marco - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 10, pp. 1650-1668
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The language effect in international trade : a meta-analysis
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - 2011
Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken)...
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EU cohesion policy on the ground : analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data
Bachtrögler, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022
We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...
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Technology convergence and digital divides : a country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801809
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The determinants of economic growth in European regions
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009
regions, we find evidence for conditional convergence with speed around two percent. The convergence process between countries … is dominated by the catching up process of regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), whereas convergence within …
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