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When Clusters become Networks
Phlippen, Sandra; van der Knaap, Bert - 2007
Policy makers spend large amounts of public resources on the foundation of science parks and other forms of geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and innovation is the assumption that co-located firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325336
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Functional and Sectoral Division of Labour within Central and Eastern European Countries: Evidence from Greenfield FDI
Dogaru, Teodora; Burger, Martijn; Karreman, Bas; van … - 2014
In this paper, we analyse the sectoral and functional division of labour in Central and Eastern European (CEE) regions within the convergence debate. By analysing the investment decisions of multinational corporations in 49 NUTS-2 regions across 6 European CEE countries (Poland, Czech Republic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377194
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When Clusters Become Networks
Phlippen, Sandra; van der Knaap, Bert - 2008
Policy makers spend large amounts of public resources on the foundation of science parks and other forms of geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and innovation is the assumption that co-located firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221106
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High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition
Adler, Nicole; Nash, Chris; Pels, Eric - 2008
This paper develops a methodology to assess transport infrastructure investments and their effects on a Nash equilibria taking into account competition between multiple privatized transport operator types. The operators, including high-speed rail, hub and spoke legacy airlines and low cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325992
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Productivity effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge
De Borger, Bruno L.; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2019
Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal expansions of the rail or highway network over time. In this paper, we study the short-run effects of a large discrete shock in the quality of transport infrastructure, viz....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114818
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From Mine to Coast: Transport Infrastructure and the Direction of Trade in Developing Countries
Bonfatti, Roberto; Poelhekke, Steven - 2013
Mine-related transport infrastructure specializes in connecting mines to the coast, and not so much to neighboring countries. This is most clearly seen in developing countries, whose transport infrastructure was originally designed to facilitate the export of natural resources in colonial times....
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Auctions for Private Congestible Infrastructures
van den Berg, Vincent A.C - 2013
This paper investigates regulation by auctions of private supply of congestible infrastructures in two networks settings: 1) two serial facilities, where the consumer has to use both in order to consume; and 2) two parallel facilities that are imperfect substitutes. There are four market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166117
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Tracing the Changing Measures of Unemployment in Dutch Unemployment Statistics 1900-1940
Rodenburg, Peter - 2001
In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324761
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Models as Measuring Instruments
Rodenburg, Peter - 2004
- provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325381
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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient Due to Grouping : Revisiting First-Order Corrections
Van Ourti, Tom - 2008
correction term is obtained from studying the estimator of the Gini index within a measurement error framework. In addition, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722922