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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337050
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372500
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285661
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568721
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229901
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Emotion at stake : the role of stake size and emotions in a power-to-take game experiment in China with a comparison to Europe
Bosman, Ronald; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Winden, Frans A. … - 2016
This paper experimentally investigates how monetary incentives and emotions influence behaviour in a two-player power-to-take game. In this game, one player can claim any part of the other's endowment (take rate), and the second player can respond by destroying his or her own endowment. We focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452814
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The EU 2020 Innovation Indicator : a step forward in measuring innovation outputs and outcomes?
Janger, Jürgen; Schubert, Torben; Andries, Petra; … - 2016
In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes and thereby "support policy-makers in establishing new or reinforced actions to remove bottlenecks that prevent innovators from translating ideas into products and services that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561185
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The EU 2020 innovation indicator : a step forward in measuring innovation outputs and outcomes?
Janger, Jürgen; Schubert, Torben; Andries, Petra; … - 2016
In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes and thereby "support policy-makers in establishing new or reinforced actions to remove bottlenecks that prevent innovators from translating ideas into products and services that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554649
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426575
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A fragmented China
Poncet, Sandra - 2004
This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337997