This North-South model of Schumpeterian endogenous growth combines a market, productivity and knowledge effect. A set … of various convergent and divergent growth paths is derived that is much richer than in the literature so far. South …-North convergence based on North-South technology diffusion through intermediate goods trade is guaranteed if the knowledge effect …

provides bilateral and bisectoral panel data for 39 countries and 35 sectors for 1995-2009. We examine growth in relative South …-North labor intensities (South-North convergence) for 31 industrialized source and eight emerging recipient countries. We find …

This paper analyses the growth effects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions … Objective 1 payments in particular have a positive and significant impact on growth, whereas Objective 2 and 3 payments … negatively affect the regions' growth rates. Furthermore, our results show that the growth impact occurs with a time lag of …

The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European … with regard to the relationship between structural funds payments and regional economic growth. In order to avoid such … on the regions' average three-year growth rates. This implies that it does not matter which "dose" of structural funds …

In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as … convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have been achieved with respect to a stronger harmonization of the …

. Following the same methodology, the influence of economic growth and public education is evaluated: both are positively …

turns out that innovative firms realize the same reduction in growth rates in turnover, but a stronger reduction in … investment growth than non-innovative firms. …

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …