Marko Bender analyzes the impact of spatial proximity between venture capitalists and new ventures throughout the investment process. He elaborates a comprehensive theoretical framework and empirically validates resulting hypotheses concerning the observed spatial proximity and the impact of...

This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on...

Introduction -- PANIC Analysis of Spanish Regional Unemployment -- Explaining the Common Stochastic Trend in Spanish Regional Unemployment: Granger-Causality Analysis -- Policy Considerations Drawn from Our Results -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix.

Presents the findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. This book provides a conceptual and empirical study of the interactions between the European economy and its regions, paying particular attention to the issue of the transition of Central and Eastern European countries...

Philipp Mohl evaluates the macroeconomic effects of EU Cohesion Policy with the help of empirical methods. His findings indicate that in particular the part of EU Cohesion Policy which is spent for the poorest regions (the so-called Objective 1 funding) has a positive and statistically...

Preface -- Introduction -- Output Growth and Productivity Growth in China -- Growth and Convergence across the Chinese Regions -- Openness and Regional Growth in China -- Openness, Human Capital, and Productivity Growth in the Chinese Regions -- Foreign Direct Investment and Regional...

Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective. The regional influences on entrepreneurship analyzed entail regional peculiarities and disparities in new business formation processes, the success and the employment effects of new...