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Agglomeration, regional grants and firm location

Devereux, Michael P.; Griffith, Rachel; Simpson, Helen - 2004

We examine whether discretionary government grants influence the location of new plants, and how effective these incentives are in the presence of agglomeration and urbanisation externalities. We find evidence that regional industrial structure affects the location of new entrants. Firms in more...

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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa

Benner, Maximilian - 2012

Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...

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Subsidizing education in the economic periphery: Another pitfall or regional policies?

Südekum, Jens - 2002

One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in economically lagging regions. However, regional policy of this type can actually hurt instead of help the poor areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with...

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Regional policy in the global economy: Insights from new economic geography

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2002

So far the contribution of New Economic Geography (NEG) has been mainly positive. Normative analysis and policy implications have lagged behind. The reason is the fear of the consequences of taking too literally the neat structure of the models. Under this respect the somewhat incautious aim of...

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Barriers to Diversification and Regional Allocation of Capital

Broll, Udo; Roldán-Ponce, Antonio; Wahl, Jack E. - 2007

In order to evaluate the allocational effectiveness of regional policy when harmonizing regional economic conditions firms? preferences play a pivot role. If harmonization hinders risk diversification of the firm, then instead of regional diversification of capital agglomeration of capital...

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Von der innovationsorientierten Regionalförderung zur regionalisierten Innovationspolitik

Fritsch, Michael - 2003

dem von Hans-Jürgen Ewers und Ko-autoren entworfenen Konzept der innovationsorientierten Regionalpolitik angestoßen wurde …. Zwar haben sich viele der dem Konzept der innovationsorientierten Regionalpolitik zugrunde liegenden Vorstellungen … innovationsorientierten Regionalpolitik vorgeschlagene Strategie der Stimulierung endogener Potentiale. …

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An econometric decision model for equalizing regional unemployment in West and East Germany

Tangian, Andranik S. - 2003

Reducing disparities among regions within European countries is the aim of European and national structural policies. In particular, a European grant contributes to the German governmental program for equalizing regional unemployment. The goal is to bring it down to the national average by...

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Location of manufacturing FDI in Hungary: How important are inter-company relationships?

Békés, Gábor - 2005

In a new economic geography framework with input-output linkages, this study analyses decisions made by foreign firms about their location within Hungary. These firm-to-firm contacts are modelled by creating several corporate customer and supplier access measures for all new foreign...

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Coping with inefficiencies in a New Economic Geography model

Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa; Kubin, Ingrid; … - 2012

This article introduces a social planner version of a model central to the New Economic Geography for explicitly answering whether the symmetric equilibrium outcome of the decentralized market economy is socially desirable. We find that savings incentives are too weak, resulting in an...

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Fördermittel für strukturschwache Gebiete: die erfolgreiche 26-Milliarden-Euro-Subvention

Bade, Franz-Josef; Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 5, pp. 2-9

Die Bund-Länder-Gemeinschaftsaufgabe "Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur" (GRW) ist ein zentraler Baustein der regionalen Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland. Von 1991 bis 2008 wurden auf diesem Weg gewerbliche Investitionen von Unternehmen in strukturschwachen Regionen mit 26...

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