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The COVID-19 crisis in the EU : the resilience of healthcare systems, government responses and their socio-economic effects
Aristodemou, Katerina; Buchhass, Lucas; Claringbould, Duco - In: Eurasian economic review : a journal in applied … 11 (2021) 2, pp. 251-281
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544268
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ICT, clusters and regional cohesion : a summary of theoretical and empirical research
Maignan, Carole; Pinelli, Dino; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2003
The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual … congested area where world-class ICT and high-tech industries cluster together. In theory, geographical agglomeration of … discusses how the use of ICT may alter the balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces and therefore the final …
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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Entrepreneurship and economic growth : an investigation into the relationship between entrpreneurship and total factor productivity growth in the EU
Dabkowski, Andrzej P. - 2011
Endogenous growth theory assigns an important role for entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. This paper sets to formally test the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth. Entrepreneurship is represented by a number of proxy variables, whereas Total Factor Productivity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229809
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2008
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729665
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Productivity and Propensity : The Two Faces of the R&D-Patent Relationship
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2011
This paper tackles one of the most persistent criticism of patent statistics. Because not all inventions are patented, the patent-to-R&D ratio reflects both a productivity effect (the number of inventions created per unit of research input) and a propensity effect (the proportion of inventions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132788
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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765316
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Pandemic in the Network Society. the Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Spreading Features in Europe and Latin America
Milovidov, Vladimir - 2020
The article examines a set of factors that determine the impact of network communication and network connections on the likelihood of contracting a new coronavirus in European and Latin American countries. The author presents several data sets to prove several suggestions:1) the generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824311
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European Union Competition Policy in Light of Modern Theories of Economic Growth : A Necessary Review to Support the Private Sector's Contribution to Growth Through Investment in T...
Ciriani, Stephane - 2015
Competition policy in the European Union is built on the principle that the exercise of market power is a source of inefficiency and as such should be prevented or eliminated. According to this doctrine, effective competition exempt from market power is the source of economic growth. Observation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021141
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R&D Cyclicality and Credit Constraints : Comparative Micro-Evidence from New EU Member States
Meriküll, Jaanika - 2018
The opportunity cost approach suggesting a countervailing cyclical effect between R&D and short-term investments is the subject of theoretical and empirical debate. The lack of firm-level panel data on R&D and ambiguous indicators for demand fluctuations has hindered empirical testing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918355