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Regional specialization: a measure method and the trends in China
Lu, Zheng; Flegg, A. Tony; Deng, Xiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper elaborates on a method of measuring regional specialization and examines the trend of regional specialization in China, 1987 - 2007. It constructs a simple coefficient incorporating the effect of regional industrial scale, based on location quotients, and then measures the regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360267
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Tendencies in the Romania's Regional Economic Development during the Period 1991-2004
Andrei, Tudorel; Iacob, Andreea Iluzia; Vlad, Liviu Bogdan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The objective of this paper represents the analysis of the way the Romania's economic integration in the EU will influence the regional specialization and industrial activities localization within NUTS (the eight regions of Romania) during the period 1991-2004, using absolute measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836485
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On the Determinants of Exchange Rate Misalignments
Saadaoui, Jamel; Mazier, Jacques; Aflouk, Nabil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The literature on exchange rate misalignments is very extensive as well as the literature on exchange rate determinants. To our knowledge, however, no study has analyzed the determinants of exchange rate misalignments. As huge capital inflows have been pouring into emerging countries since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111869
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The Location Quotient – Assembly and application of methodological enhancements
Strotebeck, Falk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The location quotient is an easy to use and often used indicator for identifying the clustering of industries, even though it struggles with some problems. This paper assembles different kinds of enhancements of the coefficient taken from the literature, which offer improvements regarding both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258980
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Cluster strategy and cluster initiatives: prospects and factors of effective clustering
Filippova, Irina; Mindlin, Yuri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
successful clustering is the development of entrepreneurship, and the expected result (i.e. the purpose of cluster initiatives …) is the growth in cluster's competitiveness. In this paper a number of economic-statistical models were constructed using … to cause a reduction in the competitiveness of the cluster. Obtained models permit to assert that social capital is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260732
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Cluster strategy and cluster initiatives: prospects and factors of effective clustering
Filippova, Irina; Unknown, Unknown - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Cluster initiatives can be classified as government & international organization's interventions in economic processes … authors deem that the main focus of cluster initiatives should be the employment's effectiveness, that implies an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261059
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The development potential of clusters in Romania
Prejmerean; Cornelia, Mihaela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Nations and regions find themselves in a constant competition for attracting direct foreign investments, the most important producers, specialized work force, the best researchers etc. From this point of view the former communist countries could be in an unfavorably situation because they just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386730
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The Role of Clusters in the Regional Policy of the Czech Republic
Skokan, Karel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
innovation programmes and also in many national and regional strategic documents of member states. The cluster development … cluster initiatives for starting cluster-based policies are mostly public sector driven. The public sector has in the past … infrastructure on which clusters can grow. The Czech Republic adopted the comprehensive approach to cluster-based policies which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836344
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Klastry v transformaci regionů - pět let poté
Skokan, Karel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
the period 2004-2006 opened a huge national-wide clustering movement. Several tens of cluster initiatives have been … reviews and summarizes developments of cluster policies in the Czech Republic at both national and regional levels and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837497
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Knowledge hubs and knowledge clusters: Designing a knowledge architecture for development.
Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
decrease the relevance of location by creating knowledge clusters and knowledge hubs. A knowledge cluster is a local innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620144