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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2007

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

Studies for established market economies such as West Germany (Fritsch and Mueller, 2007), and Sweden (Andersson and Koster, 2011) have shown that regional start-up rates tend to show a relatively high level of persistence and path dependency over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this...

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Foreign Aid and Its Effect on Per-Capita Income (Growth) in Recipient Countries: Pitfalls and Findings from a Time Series Perspective

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010

In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of development aid in recipient countries. Specifically, we analyze the relationship between per-capita income and foreign aid for a maximum of 131 recipient countries over the 1960 to 2006 period. We employ annual data and 5-year averages and,...

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The search for a long-run aid and growth relationship: Pitfalls and findings

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

In this paper we investigate the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid for a panel of131 (alternatively 52) recipient countries over the period 1960 to 2006 by employing annual data and 5-year averages. Reliance on standard panel estimation techniques (such as 2-ways FE...

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EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements - Empirical Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa

Vollmer, Sebastian; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2009

Since early 2008 interim trade agreements between the EU and six regions of ACP countries (respectively sub-groups within the region) are in force. These agreements could be stepping stones towards full Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and all ACP countries. We estimate the welfare...

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Impact of broadband speed on household income: Comparing OECD and BIC

Rohman, Ibrahim Kholilul; Bohlin, Erik - 2013

This paper aims to measure the impact of broadband speed access and upgrades on the household income based on a survey comprising 20,000 respondents in eight OECD and three BRIC countries in 2010 (Brazil, India and China). The study is novel, as most previous studies on broadband emphasize the...

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On the ICT Economy in the European Countries: Investigating the Contribution of the ICT Sectors Using the Input-Output Model

Rohman, Ibrahim Kholilul; Bohlin, Erik - 2010

Investigating the Contribution of the ICT Sectors Using the Input-Output Model Previous studies have been devoted to investigating the future of economic growth and examining the importance of technology and the ICT sectors in accelerating the growth of the economy. These studies are from a...

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Towards the alternative measurement: Discovering the relationships between technology adoption and quality of life in Indonesia

Rohman, Ibrahim Kholilul; Bohlin, Erik - 2011

The vast majority of the studies investigating telecommunication development (diffusion of mobile phone, Internet, the broadband, etc.) that have been carried out in the literatures aim at assessing the impact on economic indicators, mainly the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), whereas little...

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Stimulating the Division of Innovative Labor by Regional Competition for R&D Subsidies – A New Approach in German Innovation Policy

Eickelpasch, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael - 2004

The paper deals with a new approach in German innovation policy that organizes contests of initiatives for public funds. Based on an overview of the different programs we investigate the advantages and problems of such an approach. We find that this type of policy may have a large impact and...

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The emergence of convergence clubs among Greek regions

Artelaris, Panagiotis; Kallioras, Dimitris; Petrakos, George - 2010

The evaluation of regional inequalities and the monitoring of their evolution (regional convergence/divergence analysis … appraises the effectiveness of regional policy. Extending the methodology of (regional) convergence clubs, the paper examines … for the existence of convergence clubs, in per capita GDP terms, among the NUTS III regions of Greece during the period …

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The spatial diffusion of a knowledge base: Laser technology research in West Germany, 1960-2005

Fritsch, Michael; E., Luis F. Medrano - 2010

We analyze the spatial diffusion of laser-technology in Germany during the early phase of development, between 1960 and 2005. Research in this new technological field began in a few larger centers and then spread to other regions. In the early years, a large firm of the electronics industry...

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