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Local economic structure and industry development in Germany, 1993 - 2001
Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between 1993 and 2001. In order to facilitate a comparison between the neighbouring countries we firstly replicate the study of Combes (2000) on local employment growth in France and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452347
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Incubators, accelerators and regional economic development
Madaleno, Margarida; Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2018
A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916520
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Local employment growth in West Germany : a dynamic panel approach
Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor);  … - 2005
In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003147314
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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth : evidence from U.S. counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919883
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Is there convergence of Russia's regions? : exploring the empirical evidence ; 1995 - 2010
Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127808
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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China
Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019
We examine the mechanism by which human capital affects economic growth and convergence, using provincial level panel data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we estimate parametrically, nonparametrically, and with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993244
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Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts
Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of … on entrepreneurship has been sharper in areas with industrial districts. After examining alternative explanations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386017
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What drives spatial clusters of entrepreneurship in China? : evidence from economic census data
Liang, Zheng; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737507
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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change
Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350823
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Competing for influence in networks through strategic targeting
Comola, Margherita; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - 2024
We experimentally investigate how players with opposing views compete for influence through strategic targeting in networks. We varied the network structure, the relative influence of the opponent, and the heterogeneity of the nodes' initial opinions. Although most players adopted a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069374