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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
Unternehmen in strukturschwachen Regionen mit 26 Milliarden Euro unterstützt. Die hier vorgestellte Wirkungsanalyse, bei der die …
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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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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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Reflections on cluster policies
Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2012
Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...
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Regionale Innovationspolitik: Konzentration auf Hightech kann in die Irre führen
Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 29, pp. 8-11
Die Bewertung der Innovationsfähigkeit von Regionen hat vor dem Hintergrund des verschärften regionalen Wettbewerbs um …
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When inefficiency begets efficiency
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2003
Collective consumption decisions taken by the members of a household may prove inefficient. The impact of such inefficient household decisions on market performance is investigated. At one extreme, market efficiency can occur even when household decisions are inefficient, namely when household...
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Public Bank Guarantees and Allocative Efficiency
Gropp, Reint E.; Guettler, Andre; Saadi, Vahid - 2015
[Staatliche Bankgarantien und Allokationseffizienz] Im Zuge der jüngsten Finanzkrise haben viele Regierungen ihre … Bürgschaften auf die Kreditvergabe identifizieren zu können („Allokationseffizienz“). Unter Verwendung zusammengeführter Bank- und … Unternehmensdaten zeigt sich, dass staatliche Garantien diese Allokationseffizienz mindern. Werden Garantien gewährleistet, investieren …
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Auctions under Payoff Uncertainty: The Case with Heterogeneous Bidder-Aversion to Downside Risk
Hu, Audrey; Zou, Liang - 2008
This paper characterizes the optimal first-price auction (FPA) and second-price auction (SPA) for selling rights, contracts, or licenses that involve ensuing payoff uncertainty for the winning bidder. The distribution of the random payoff is common knowledge, except that bidders have private...
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Behavioral efficiency I: Definition, methodology and demonstration
Harstad, Ronald M. - 2011
Economic experiments conducted in laboratories employing an induced-values methodology can report on allocative efficiencies observed. This methodology is limited by requiring the experimenter to know subjects' motivations, an impossibility in field experiments. Allocative efficiency implies a...
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