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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301178
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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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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271770
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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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Competitiveness and Convergence: Trade, Merger Control, Industry, and Innovation. Reports
Rieth, Malte; Duso, Tomaso; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 140-147
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014956
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Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Konvergenz: Handel, Fusionskontrolle, Industrie, Innovationen. Berichte
Kritikos, Alexander; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 18, pp. 302-309
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016352
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Uncovered interest parity at distant horizons: evidence on emerging economies & nonlinearities
Mehl, Arnaud; Cappiello, Lorenzo - 2007
This paper tests for uncovered interest parity (UIP) at distant horizons for the US and its main trading partners, including both mature and emerging market economies, also exploring the existence of nonlinearities. At long and medium horizons, it finds support in favour of the standard, linear,...
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