Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 288
Cover Image
Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291780
Cover Image
The quality of banking and regional growth
Hasan, Iftekhar; Koetter, Michael; Wedow, Michael - 2007
We test whether output growth in European economic agglomeration regions depends on financial development. To this end we suggest a relative measure of the quality of financial institutions rather than the usual quantity proxy of financial development. In order to measure the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295929
Cover Image
Age Structure and Regional Income Growth
Brunow, Stephan; Hirte, Georg - 2005
A spatial econometrics cross-section analysis of the NUTS2 regions of the EU15 is carried out to examine whether the age structure of the regional population or differences in the regional age pattern affect growth of regional per capita income. We apply two parsimonious models of the age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296771
Cover Image
What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301178
Cover Image
Humankapital und Wirtschaftswachstum in den Regionen der EU
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 29, pp. 402-408
Die Fähigkeit zur Einführung neuer Produkte und Verfahren ist in einer sich rasch wandelnden globalen Wissensgesellschaft zu einem entscheidenden Faktor für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg geworden. Die Wachstumsperspektiven von Ländern und Regionen hängen in hohem Maße von ihrer Ausstattung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601847
Cover Image
Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273782
Cover Image
Regional growth convergence and EU policies: Empirical evidence and measuring problems
Esposti, Roberto - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 1, pp. 14-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695888
Cover Image
Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268707
Cover Image
International integration and regional development in China
Gries, Thomas; Redlin, Margarete - 2008
Concerns about the duration of China's growth and hence the question of a permanent significant contribution of China … to world economic growth relate, amongst other things, to the problem of reducing regional disparity in China. While … China's high average growth is driven by a small number of rapidly developing provinces, the majority of provinces have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273441
Cover Image
Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng - 2007
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273849