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...

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

Motivated by differences in New-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on New-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the sevice sector...

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

This research report from the Milken Institute ranks U.S. metropolitan areas that are recording the top economic performance and creating the most jobs in the nation. The index is an outcomes-based measure as opposed to one that incorporates explicit measures of business costs, cost-of-living...

In dem vorliegenden Forschungsbericht wird erstmals die Beziehung zwischen Markentreue,Einkaufsstättentreue und Erfolg im Einzelhandel empirisch untersucht. Obwohl das Interesse derWissenschaft und der Praxis an einer Analyse dieser Wirkungsbeziehung sehr groß ist, wurde dieBeziehung zwischen...

The authors of this paper examine the relationship between brand loyalty, store loyalty and performance. Although both academics and practicioners are very much interested in an analysis of the interrelations, these constructs have not yet been examined in a closed causal model. The findings of...