Similar Search Results

Adding geography to the new economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498831

Fiscal competition, convergence and agglomeration

Fenge, Robert (contributor); … - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598831

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 to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790767

Mining matters : natural resource extraction and local business constraints

Haas, Ralph de; Poelhekke, Steven - 2016

We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565667

Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491732

High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013

The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because of the exceptionally tight labor market. A new measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212670

The rise (and fall) of tech clusters

Kichko, Sergey; Liang, Wen-Jung; Mai, Zhaocheng; … - 2020

, which allows us to determine necessary and sufficient conditions for a tech cluster to emerge as an equilibrium outcome. We … tech cluster to form. Not only is the productivity of the final sector higher when intermediate firms cluster, but a tech … cluster hosts more intermediate firms and more R&D and production activities, and yields greater worker welfare, compared to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271746

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

How new airport infrastructure promotes tourism : evidence from a synthetic control approach in German regions

Dörr, Luisa; Dorn, Florian; Gäbler, Stefanie; … - 2019

We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a military air base into a regional commercial airport in the German state of Bavaria. The new airport opened in 2007 and promotes travelling to the touristic region Allgäu in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157335

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426556

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last