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The vast majority of regions in West Germany, and the EU, have become more similar in terms of per-capita income and productivity between 1980 and 2000. But a number of rich areas - generally large agglomerations - have succeeded in departing from this trend of convergence. They are continuing...
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agglomeration economies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks from idiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor … employment shocks. Both findings provide evidence that labor pooling matters as a source of agglomeration economies by allowing …, suggesting that agglomeration costs exceed the benefits from risk sharing. -- Marshallian Externalities ; Labor Pooling …
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host region. Using a nested logit approach the impact of agglomeration economies, labour market conditions and distance on … location of the parent company the attractive-ness of a Czech district for German investors is mainly driven by agglomeration … economies. Besides localisation economies the agglomeration of German compa-nies in a region plays a decisive role. The …
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host region. Using a nested logit approach the impact of agglomeration economies, labour market conditions and distance on … location of the parent company the attractiveness of a Czech district for German investors is mainly driven by agglomeration … economies. Besides localisation economies the agglomeration of German companies in a region plays a decisive role. The …
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Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...
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German reunication was a positive market access shock for both East and West Germany. Regions that for 45 years had experienced a decline in population due to their loss in market access following the division of Germany of WWII were most strongly affected by this positive shock. We use an...
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The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …
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We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...
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This paper reviews the empirical evidence concerning the regional emergence of innovative new businesses. It is argued that analyses using aggregate data that focus on the regional level and do not account for career patterns of innovative founders are of limited value in guiding policy that is...
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