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Fiscal competition, convergence and agglomeration
Fenge, Robert (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598831
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
the result of competition for prestige between courts and not of economic prosperity. Accordingly, the instrument is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861818
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Does culture cause economic development? : a reassessment of the evidence from European regions
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2012
This paper shows that Tabellini's recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic development is unjustified. Tabellini's claim is based on an instrumental variables analysis in which two instruments are used to identify the supposed causal effect. One of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683222
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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe
Tabellini, Guido Enrico (contributor) - 2005
Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture is measured by indicators of individual values and beliefs, such as trust and respect for others, and confidence in individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003110530
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Role of production networks in sustaining and rebalancing Asia's growth
Thorbecke, Willem; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
In last few decades, Asian production networks have contributed significantly toward the rapid trade expansion and economic growth in East Asia. Developed Asia produces technology-intensive intermediate goods and capital goods and ships them to the People Republic of China (PRC) and ASEAN for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571750
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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013
measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212670
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The extension of clusters : difference-in-differences evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy
Falck, Oliver (contributor); Heblich, Stephan (contributor);  … - 2008
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 Initiativeʺ introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790767
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Regional productivity network in the EU
Mastromarco, Camilla; Serlenga, Laura; Shin, Yongcheol - 2023
We develop a unified stochastic frontier model which controls for the local spatial correlation and the global factor dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to examine the diffusion impacts of the capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265593
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Adding geography to the new economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498831
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Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition
Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - 2009
This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric … subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the industry core is inefficiently locked in to the smaller region … ; subsidy competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820639