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Going NUTS : the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; … - 2008
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
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Entrepreneurship, growth, regional growth regimes
Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - 2015
We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...
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Persistence and change of regional new business formation in the national league table
Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - 2016
We investigate persistence and change of the levels of regional new business formation in West Germany over a period of thirty years. Our indicator is the position of a region in the national ranking. As indicated by previous studies, we generally find a rather high level of persistence and...
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An impact evaluation of investment in infrastructure : the case of the railway connection in Uzbekistan
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2015
The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of our analysis is based on difference-in-difference estimation linking the changes in the growth rate of regional-level economic...
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The Direct and Indirect (Spillover) Effects of Productive Government Spending on State Economic Growth
Atems, Bebonchu - 2018
Using data on 48 contiguous U.S. states and a spatial econometric approach, this paper examines short- and long-run effects of productive higher education and highway infrastructure spending financed by different revenue sources on state economic growth. Following the Lagrange Multiplier, Wald,...
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Ready for take-off? : the economic effects of regional airport expansion
Breidenbach, Philipp - 2015
This paper analyzes whether the expansion of regional airports in Germany caused positive spillover effects on the surrounding economies, exploiting the deregulation of the European aviation market as a quasi-experiment. Such potential spillovers are often used as an argument for the substantial...
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Convergence in government spending components in EU15 : a spatial econometric perspective
Maleševic Perović, Lena; Golem, Silvia; Mihaljević … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 42, pp. 240-254
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on convergence by applying convergence model to components of …, we extend the traditional convergence model to allow for spatial correlation between countries in the sample, by … Education. More precisely, half-life convergence for Defence occurs in 6.37 years, for Health in 3.11 years and for Education in …
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Evaluating the effects of Small Business Administration lending on growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Lacombe, Donald J.; Stenard, … - In: Small business economics : an international journal 57 (2021) 1, pp. 23-45
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Fiscal decentralisation, provincial economic growth and spillover effects : a spatial panel data analysis
Raza, Qasim; Hina, Hafsa - In: The Pakistan development review : PDR 55 (2016) 4, pp. 743-760
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Entrepreneurship in the long-run : empirical evidence and historical mechanisms
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2022
We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development. What is the state of empirical research in this field,...
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