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Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe
Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012
This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...
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Industrial clusters as source of prospering regions? : economic structure and regional performance 1996-2005
Kubis, Alexander; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2010
within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209009
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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey
Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014
"Development" isn't only an economic notion but also it consist of so many meanings such as social, cultural manners, production and consumption ways. During the development process, development units could be growth in vary times and space. At this point what has to be told, which sector and...
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Growth agglomeration effects in spatially interdependent Latin American regions
Guevara, Carolina - 2015
Theoretical approaches have been developed to examine the effect of agglomeration on growth. However, the understanding of the mechanisms of agglomeration in developing countries remains unaddressed. This paper aims to give empirical evidence of the role of agglomeration on the growth of Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480257
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Regional convergence and economic development in the EU : the relation between national growth and regional disparities within the old and the new member states
Kramar, Hans - 2015
While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU … towards economic convergence on a national scale between 2000 and 2011, mainly caused by the rapid growth of the most lagging … countries. On a regional scale, however, the process of convergence was much slower and almost came to an end after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481693
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Regional dynamics in EU11
Pinelli, Dino; Pellényi, Gábor Márk - 2021
This chapter analyses the dynamics of regional disparities in the member states that joined the European Union in or after 2004, excluding Cyprus and Malta (EU11). The analysis shows that while differences between countries have been shrinking, regional disparities in GDP per capita and...
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Income convergence, migration and geography : distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2010
Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653742
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Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments : a panel data analysis for 28 EU member countries
Schmidt, Peter - 2016
This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866641
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Challenges in implementing Croatian regional policy within semi-European context : 52nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association Bratislava, Slovakia, 21st-25th August...
Fröhlich, Zlatan; Đokić, Irena - 2012
Croatia is geographically, historically and culturally a part of the European territory. Regions, as specific units within a national territory, are defined differently on EU level than in Croatia, where counties are far too small to be considered as regions in EU terms. The implementation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509054
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R&D and regional regeneration : the case of Alba subregion in Romania
Goschin, Zizi; Goschin, Georgiana-Gloria - 2014
Innovation and competitiveness are important factors for promoting economic growth not only nationally, but regionally as well. In Romania, research, development and innovation could be among the factors that are accountable for the increasing regional disparities, as the territorial...
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