Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 387
Cover Image
The determinants of economic growth in European regions
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009
We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806087
Cover Image
Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409398
Cover Image
The impact of the spatial population distribution on economic growth : evidence from the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022
We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413313
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861818
Cover Image
Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification
Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295798
Cover Image
What's in a name? : initial geography and German urban development
Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023
Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and the date it was granted city rights. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281491
Cover Image
A spatial perspective on European integration : heterogeneous welfare and migration effects from the single market and the Brexit
Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1,318 regions. The model suggests that an increase of trade barriers to the level of 1957 reduces welfare by about 1-2 percent on average, depending on the presumed trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587896
Cover Image
Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515477
Cover Image
Creating firms for a new century : determinants of firm creation around 1900
Baten, Jörg - 2003
A rapidly growing literature in industrial economics and regional economics uses data sets of individual firms or regional firm creation rates to answer the central question: What makes entrepreneurs? Which factors encourage some people to set up their own business and create jobs, and what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511052
Cover Image
Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488855