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Specialization and Agglomeration Patterns in Eastern Europe

Chapman, Sheila A. - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 10 (2013) 1, pp. 49-79

The paper investigates specialization and agglomeration trends in EU-27 NUTS2 regions over 1991-2011 by means of two …-average specialization and agglomeration. The paper shows that over 1991-2011 these features change very little; moreover, while …, notwithstanding EU emphasis on real convergence. Indicators disaggregated by sectors show that for CEECs specialization/agglomeration …

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Regional Impacts of non-R&D Innovation Expenditures across the EU Regions: Simulation Results Using the Rhomolo CGE Model

Lopez-Rodriguez, Jesus; Diukanova, Olga - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2014) 29, pp. 91-111

In the EU, a sizable part of innovation is attributed to the activities other than R&D such as purchases of advanced machinery, licenses, patents and minor modifications in products or processes. These non-R&D innovation activities receive substantial funding from the European cohesion policy...

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Rhomolo and other methodologies to assess The European Cohesion Policy

Lopez-Rodriguez, Jesus; Faíña, Andrés - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2014) 29, pp. 5-13

The funds committed to cohesion policy are the second highest category of expenditure in the European Union budget and this policy is among the most evaluated. There are different tools and methodologies to carry out the evaluation each of them with their own merits and also their flaws and...

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The size of the carbon market study: discussion

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

This is an invited discussion on the Morozova and Stuart’s paper “The Size of the Carbon Market Study”. It suggests a number of issues for consideration in appropriately estimating the size of carbon markets. They include Annex 1 (industrialised) countries’ baseline emissions;...

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Estimating the size of the potential market for all three flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

The Kyoto Protocol is the first international environmental agreement that sets legally binding greenhouse gas emissions targets and timetables for Annex I countries. It incorporates emissions trading and two project-based flexibility mechanisms, namely joint implementation and the clean...

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Innovation and spatial inequality in Europe and USA

Lee, Neil; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Innovation is a crucial driver of urban and regional economic success. Innovative cities and regions tend to grow faster and have higher average wages. Little research, however, has considered the potential negative consequences: as a small body of innovators gain relative to others, innovation...

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Services provision and temporary mobility: freedoms and regulation in the EU

Bertola, Guiseppe; Mola, Lorenza - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

International posting of workers and mobility of self-employed service suppliers lie between outright migration and trade in goods: their regulation, for both distributional and marketcorrecting purposes, is not as difficult to harmonize as that of labour markets, but personal mobility is more...

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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Short haul business travel in the European Union: a segmentation profile

Mason, Keith J; Gray, Richard - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 2 (1995) 3, pp. 197-205

segmentation model that addresses the industrial nature of the market. Three distinct market segments are identified; the schedule …

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Regional Wage Disparities in Europe: What role for Market Access?

López-Rodríguez, López-Rodríguez , Jesús; Faíña, … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2007) 11, pp. 5-23

This paper uses a New Economic Geography model to test for wagedisparities in the European Union. We derive and estimate an econometric specificationrelating wages to a distance weighted sum of regional GDP’s. The empirical estimationsof the model were carried out for a sample of 160 NUTS2...

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