This paper analyzes the impact of the German structure program "Joint Task for the Improvement of Regional Economic Structures" (GRW) on regional economic growth. The paper extends the existing literature by several aspects. First of all, using the popular augmented Solow model by Mankiw et al....

The present paper examines the effect of entrepreneurship capital and spatial productivity spillovers on Greek regional labour productivity during Greek financial crisis. A spatial autoregressive (SAR) dynamic panel data model using the robust Blundell and Bond GMM estimator suggests that...

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...