Möller, Joachim; Tubadji, Annie - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009) 2-3, pp. 270-291
Summary The paper aims at testing Florida’s concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...