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The crisis and regional resilience in Europe : on the importance of urbanization and specialization
Steven, Brakman; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014 - This version:, March 2014
Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience … to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337597
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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe : On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization
Brakman, Steven - 2015
Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience … to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033744
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Are the marginal convergence outcomes of the cohesion policy diminishing?
Butkus, Mindaugas; Mačiulytė-Šniukienė, Alma; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 5, pp. 1390-1410
Significant disparities still exist between regions of the European Union, even though substantial Cohesion investments are directed to address this issue. To adjust the Cohesion Policy (CP), researchers assess the returns of the CP, but almost all studies are carried out at NUTS1&2 or a country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271858
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Unveiling the relationship between regional economic resilience and input-output network topology : evidence from the European Union
Giannakis, Elias; Tsiotas, Dimitrios; Papadas, Christos T. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-15
intensity of the sectors' clustering is positively associated with regional resilience, while the sectorial clustering of … regions negatively affects their resilience to exogenous shocks, revealing a competitive relationship between network topology … and functionality in the configuration of regional resilience. The overall approach provides a methodological framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582384
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The relation between agricultural and non-agricultural economic development : technical report on an empirical analysis of European regions
Margarian, Anne - 2012
Support of agriculture is justified, among others, by its contribution to rural economic development. Nevertheless, the relation between agricultural and general economic development may be ambiguous. On the one side, agriculture may affect other sectors positively via multiplier and income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530353
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Competitiveness factors at national and regional level : a panel analysis for Romania
Chilian, Mihaela Nona - 2012
The paper attempts to identify with the help of a panel model the presence of common or divergent development patterns and some significant factors of competitiveness at national and regional level (mainly regarding investment and employment, overall and by main economic sectors). The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522160
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Determinants for the partners' choice within the 7th EU Framework Programmec
Titze, Mirko; Brachert, Matthias - 2014 - 1st draft
The EU Framework Programme (FP) belongs to the most important instruments promoting transnational collaborative R&D projects in Europe. Its main objective is to initiate cross-border complementarities in order to exploit knowledge resources and to conduct large scale research. Within the EU FPs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494530
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Is economic integration a historical shock to city-size distribution?
Sorhun, Engin - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 21 (2018) 1, pp. 83-100
Based on the assumption that the economic integration process contributes, via market reforms, to the dynamics of the space distribution in candidate countries, this study examines (i) whether agglomeration forces or dispersion forces are dominant; (ii) whether EU-integration causes a structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877210
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Inward foreign direct investment, superstar firms and wage inequality between firms : evidence from European regions
Durán, Juan David; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2023
Theoretical models and international evidence have established that foreign direct investment is associated with new technologies, productivity gains, higher wages, and wage inequality in the host countries. While most existing studies on foreign direct investment and wage inequality have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438671
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Economic geography within and between European nations : the role of market potential and density across space and time
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2009
In explaining the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, urban economics and new economic geography (NEG) dominate recent research in economics. A main difference between these two approaches is that NEG stresses the role of spatial linkages whereas urban economics does not do so. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850511