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Zukunftsgestaltung ohne Wirtschaftswachstum: Ergebnisse eines Workshops des DIW im Auftrag von Greenpeace Deutschland

Blazejczak, Jürgen (contributor) - 1998

Deutschland durchgeführt hat. Ziel des Workshops war es, zur Klärung der Konsequenzen eines - aufgrund ökologischer Grenzen für …

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National and international developments in technology – Trends, patterns and implications for policy

Koopmann, Georg; Münnich, Felix - 1999

Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...

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Räumliche Wirkungen der Globalisierung in Deutschland

Lammers, Konrad - 1999

weniger über Direktinvestitionen im Ausland. Die ausländischen Direktinvestitionen in Deutschland konzentrieren sich auf …, eine optimale Raumstruktur zu schaffen. Die Raumstruktur in Deutschland ist durch eine größere Anzahl von …

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Border effects and border regions: Lessons from the German unification

Nitsch, Volker - 2002

This paper examines data on trade flows between West German Bundesländer (federal states) and East Germany to explore the effect of national borders on trade. Although the data cover only a small fraction of intra-German trade flows, I find a home bias of about factor 2.2; West German shipments...

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Threshold effects and regional economic growth – Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2001

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 the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...

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Locating foreign affiliates in Germany: The case of Swedish MNEs

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001

schwedischer Tochtergesellschaften in Deutschland im Vergleich mit denen in anderen Ländern untersucht. Es zeigt sich, dass die … Multis, in Deutschland zu investieren. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Standortentscheidung beeinflusst wird vom Niveau der … Lohnkosten in Deutschland und an anderen potentiellen Standorten in europäischen Hocheinkommensländern, aber nicht von den …

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Convergence and the effects of spatial interaction

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the issue of income convergence has received considerable attention in economic research. Although a vast number of empirical studies has emerged, evidence on the role of spatial interaction is still rather scarce. The present paper is an attempt to provide...

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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth: Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...

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Spatial structural change – Evidence and prospects

Bade, Franz-Josef; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Schönert, Matthias - 2000

Main topics of the following analysis are the development of spatial structure and the question whether the economic disparities between agglomerations and peripheral areas will con- or diverge. Frequently, economic disparities are measured by per capita i ncome. Because of the relationship...

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Do regional price levels converge? Paneleconometric evidence based on German districts

Dreger, Christian; Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2007

We investigate price index convergence on the base of regional data for 439 German districts. Prices refer to the overall consumer price index as well as to the index without housing prices. To increase the efficiency of the testing framework, a panel unit root analysis is performed, where cross...

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