Showing 1 - 10 of 62
This paper discusses the role of so-called national champions within the context of the EU's ambitious goal to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economic region in the world by 2010. We find football to be a useful analogy in our discussion of national champions. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864512
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841469
Nobuko Inagawa has written an excellent paper on the relevance of Japanese experiences for a successful integration of Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) into the world economy. Talking about the case of Japan is particularly interesting - and potentially controversial - compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841472
Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die Frage der industriepolitischen Beeinflussung in asiatischen Ländern und ob es im Rahmen einer globalisierten Ökonomie, in der sich die Wissensbeständeim Abstand von 5 Jahren jeweils verdoppeln, auch weiterhin ein Erfolgsmodell sein wird.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005844966
Ausland, einer starken Bildungsförderungsowie einer staatlichen Industriepolitik enorme Wachstumsraten erzielt. Seitden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005854857
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies withheterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies,infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in onecountry have negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360560
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are commonworldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. Weexploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to supportmanufacturing jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486961
We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand “jobless” growthin Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, fortyyears of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of largeexporting plants with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861173
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861364
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863251