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Based on a case study on Bombay, we argue that urban infrastructure, like the sewage system and the municipal waste collection, is an important instrument for urban environmental policy. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model of a monocentric city, where infrastructure serves as a public...
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Bottom-up processes of policy convergence are increasingly discussed as a substitute for the absence of supranational …-up convergence? In order to answer this question, we first construct country-specific R&D-based knowledge stocks, and then … Member States over the time period 1990-2012 is employed to test for the presence of conditional â-convergence using a bias …
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Since the Second World War the West German states show persistent differences in their standard of living. The explanation of the incomplete catching-up process within West Germany is of crucial interest. After identifying productivity as the major growth driving force, this paper investigates...
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The success breeds success hypothesis has been mainly applied to theoretical network approaches. We investigate the European aerospace industry using data on the European Framework Programmes and on Airbus suppliers, focusing on the success breeds success hypothesis at four levels of analysis:...
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