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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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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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The dynamics of catch-up and skill and technology upgrading in China
Chen, Xi; Funke, Michael - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 38 (2013) PB, pp. 465-480
This paper accounts for China’s economic growth since 1980 in a unified endogenous growth model in which a sequencing … of physical capital accumulation, human capital accumulation and innovation drives the rise in China’s aggregate income … can generate a trajectory that accords well with the different stages of development in China. …
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