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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? : an empirical analysis for Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...

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Technology convergence and digital divides : a country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2013

convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …

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Markov or not Markov : this should be a question

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence …

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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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The cost of remoteness revisited

Franke, Richard - 2017

Redding and Sturm (2008) use the German division as a natural experiment to study the importance of market access for regional development. They show empirically that cities close to the East-West German border experienced a significant decline in population growth due to division. I argue that...

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A race to the bottom in labour standards? : an empirical investigation

Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011 - This Draft: November 2011

Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...

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Tax policy, foreign direct investment and spillover effects

Boly, Amadou; Coulibaly, Seydou; Kéré, Eric Nazindigouba - 2019

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Assessing the advantages of EMU-enlargement for the EU and the accession countries : a comparative indicator approach

Schweickert, Rainer - 2001

The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from … accession countries, claiming that monetary integration is optimal. Indicators are developed which measure convergence and … benefits from monetary integration. The more serious problem is a lack of convergence which could imply serious risks during …

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Re-examining the convergence of the world economy : Markov chain model with population weighting

Domínguez, Alvaro; Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2022

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Irregular economic growth in the world economy : fluctuations of ergodic distributions through a Markov Chain Model

Domínguez, Alvaro; Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2022

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