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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...
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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...
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
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...
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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies
Plummer, Lawrence A.; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2004
New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271747
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Dynamics of collaborative invention tracking growth of cooperative and total patents in the region
Bürger, Matthias - 2011
The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level. Patent data for German regions and eleven subsequent years is used to identify collaborative activity as well as the innovative output in each region. The results confirm to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281626
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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
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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
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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
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Financial sector development and growth: The Chinese experience
Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - 2006
This paper documents the financial and institutional developments of China during the past two decades, when China was … examine the relationship between financial development and economic growth in China by employing a panel sample covering 31 … markets, institutions, and instruments have been robustly associated with economic growth in China. – institutions ; growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284671
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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: Cherry-picking and lemon-grabbing
Weche-Gelübcke, John P. - 2012
This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most important FDI inflow destinations worldwide. Using a new database from German official statistics, unconditional comparisons as well as binary response model estimations of takeover...
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