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Borders and Distance in Knowledge Spillovers: Dying Over Time or Dying with Age? - Evidence from Patent Citations
Li, Yao Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
with strengthened knowledge agglomeration over time. Nevertheless, both border and distance effects decrease with the age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107907
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Identifying regional disparities in Romania: a convergence process perspective in relation to European Union's territorial structures
Antonescu, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article aims to use the appropriate models based on dispersion method, variance, to identify the dynamics and amplitude differences in the level of regional development in European Union and Romania, expressed by the GDP, per capita and total. In the present paper, we limit the approach...
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Regional cluster policy: The Asian model vs. the OECD approach
Pessoa, Argentino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more looking at the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the emergence of new ones. In fact, not only as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113981
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Do balanced-budget rules increase growth?
Stone, Joe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study tests the hypothesis that balanced-budget rules (BBRs) that restrict public borrowing to investments in public infrastructure increase growth by increasing the productivity of debt, either because investments in public infrastructure are more productive than other uses for which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110314
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Export specialisation and regional growth, in Romania
Antonescu, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
From regional growth theoretical perspectives, exports represent the important factor with different impact in time and space. The export activities depend in a large share on the way in which a state or a region capitalises their endogenous potential, including the accumulated knowledge and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240784
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Poverty and Banking Exclusion in Mexico: How can remittances and technology contribute to improve access?
Ramos-Murillo, Erick; Kronberger, Benedikt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Mexico. A large share of the population has to live on less than US$2 a day. In rural areas, and particularly in the Southern … migration in turn results in remittances inflows, which have reached unprecedented levels in Mexico with about US24bn in 2006 … of transfers. New and cheap channels for transferal are available, but only for the banked. In Mexico between 20 or 30 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113343
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The Impact of Urban Sprawl on Disaster Relief Spending: An Exploratory Study
Lambert, Thomas; Catchen, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Students of public policy have written a lot over the years about the rise of suburbia and development beyond older city boundaries in the United States, whether such development has been called urban, suburban, or ex-urban sprawl. Many writers have focused on various issues concerning sprawl,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258594
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Chinese statistics: classification systems and data sources
Holz, Carsten A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
China has become a popular geographic area of research. Researchers make extensive use of Chinese official statistics, but these statistics are often not well understood. This article first clarifies three major issues that affect a wide range of Chinese statistics—from output and employment...
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Impacts of Changes In Regional Sugar and Ethanol Exports Upon Brazilian Overall Economy
Burnquist, H. L.; Costa, C. C.; Guilhoto, J. J. M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper estimates the impact of an increase in Brazilian sugar and ethanol demand for exports upon the countries’ overall production and employment. The impacts were simulated considering each of the major cane producing areas of the country (Center-South and North-Northeast). An...
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