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South Africa´s trade barriers are still relatively high compared to other emerging market economies, and its industrial policy still preferentially treats certain industries. Based on a static GTAP model, we estimate the economic impact of further trade liberalization on the South African...
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South Africa's trade barriers are still relatively high compared to other emerging market economies, and its industrial policy still preferentially treats certain industries. Based on a static GTAP model, we estimate the economic impact of further trade liberalization on the South African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884465
Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional …
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This paper investigates the effect of related and unrelated variety on regional growth in West Germany. In particular …, we analyze the role of regional absorptive capacity and new business formation for these effects. We find that West …
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This paper reviews the empirical evidence concerning the regional emergence of innovative new businesses. It is argued … that analyses using aggregate data that focus on the regional level and do not account for career patterns of innovative …
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We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function …
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as Jacobs' externalities on innovative performance at the regional level. The results suggest an inverted u …-shaped relationship between regional specialization in certain industries and innovative performance. Further key determinants of the … regional innovative performance are private sector R&D and university-industry collaboration. …
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issue. In using industryspecific R&D employment numbers on a regional level, an approximate concordance is developed between …
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We study location choices and firm performance in the German machine tool industry, focusing on the forced migration of East German firms after World War II. Our analysis of location choices supports earlier findings that industry agglomerations attract further entrants. Relocating firms...
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We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 … formation at the regional level. Human capital as measured by creative occupation outperforms indicators that are based on …
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