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Competitiveness and clusters : implications for a new European growth strategy

Ketels, Christian H. - 2015

This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses summarizes key findings from the previous research...

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Group-specific redistribution, inequality, and subjective well-being in China

Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022

Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China's urban, rural, and migrant populations. Using narrowly defined reference...

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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...

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Resource curse : a comparative study

Azarhoushang, Behzad; Rukavina, Marko - 2014

examine the viability of Resource Curse theory for Iran, Russia and Norway to see whether natural resources are curse or … Iran with Turkey and Russia with China to illustrate the negative effects of oil revenue on economic performance. The … successful oil rich country shows that efficient institutions can turn natural resource into blessing; while Iran's and Russia …

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Creating capitalism : politics, reforms, and economic performance ; an econometric analysis of six countries from 1989-1999

Wykoff, Frank C. - 2001

Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) over their first ten years of freedom. We draw three conclusions from … relatively popular, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria, reform is slower, more problematic, and aimed toward a welfare state not US …

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Russia's economy and regional spillovers

Becker, Torbjörn - 2019

Russia and highlights how this has impacted macroeconomic performance during Putin's different terms in office. Although … Russia is not an economic superpower globally, the size and importance of Russia for the CIS region is significant and thus …

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Stolen decades : the unfulfilled expectations of the Belarusian economic miracle

Alachnovič, Aleś; Korosteleva, Julia - 2022

-presidential political crisis and Russia's war in Ukraine in 2022 put further strains on the economy, calling for change. This working paper …

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Productive robots and industrial employment : the role of national innovation systems

Kapetaniou, Chrystalla; Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. - 2022

In a model with robots, and automatable and complementary human tasks, we examine robot-labour substitutions and show how it they are influenced by a country's "innovation system". Substitution depends on demand and production elasticities, and other factors influenced by the innovation system....

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Product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2013

The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...

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The Europe 2020 strategy at midterm : disappointing assessment calls for an urgent change driven by long run priorities

Aiginger, Karl - 2014

Europe 2020 tried to overcome the failures of the Lisbon Strategy. Goals set by the European commission were allowed to be adapted to take account of the starting position and the preferences of member countries ("national ownership"), the monitoring process was improved and the coordination...

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