In this paper we investigate the determinants of cooperative innovation and put our main focus on the regional or spatial and on the technological or sectoral dimension. We suggest a method to disentangle these two factors and to extract differential regional effects. The latter can be used to...

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...

Das geltende Finanzausgleichsgesetz gilt nur noch als Übergangsrecht fort. Bis zum 1. Januar 2003 muss der Bundesgesetzgeber ein Maßstäbegesetz1 und auf dieser Grundlage bis zum 1. Januar 2005 ein neues Finanzausgleichsgesetz schaffen. Eine wichtige Frage für die Maßstabsbildung lautet:...

In der Öffentlichkeit wird zuweilen die Ansicht geäußert, der Abstand in den Verdienstmöglichkeiten zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland sei vor allem eine Folge unterschiedlicher Wirtschaftsstrukturen (wie der Dominanz kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen, des Fehlens von Unternehmenshauptsitzen...

In his oft-cited "What do we know about entry?", Paul Geroski (1995) gave a survey of empirical works on this central topic regarding industrial organization and, more precisely, market dynamics. Surprisingly, his article remains silent on the spatial dimension of these dynamics. This paper...

Economic Determinants of Regionalism in the Russian Federation. – In this paper the structure of the economics of 71 oblast-level regional units within the Russian Federation is analysed with a view to identifying economic incentives for regionalism. Such incentives are assumed to exist...

We analyze determinants of regional industry mix and focus especially on the influence of labor market characteristics. By combining a labor market pooling argument with an argument involving the cost of switching a worker from one firm to another, we show that in the presence of product market...

This essay provides an overview of the role of infrastructure on economic geography in the light of both theoretical and empirical findings. Two main lessons stand out. First, infrastructural improvements affect the geographical distribution of economic activities. Second, even when localized,...