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Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe

Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...

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Trends in the relation between regional convergence and economic growth in EU

Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between regional convergence inside of countries in EU and … the correlation between the convergence process and economic growth we focused, as it is usually used in specialised … literature to analyse the real convergence, on the dynamics of GDP per capita expressed in case of EU by PPS (Purchasing Power …

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Regional income convergence in Europe : a Bayesian model averaging perspective : 52th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International August 21-25, 2012, Bratis...

Gmeinder, Michael; Piribauer, Philipp; Schoiswohl, Florian - 2012

The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …

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The effects of knowledge and innovation on regional growth : nonparametric evidence

Sanso-Navarro, Marcos; Vera-Cabello, María - 2014

This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out through the application of nonparametric estimation methods to European data at NUTS2 level. We provide evidence that the share of innovative ...firms plays a more relevant role in...

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R&D and regional regeneration : the case of Alba subregion in Romania

Goschin, Zizi; Goschin, Georgiana-Gloria - 2014

Innovation and competitiveness are important factors for promoting economic growth not only nationally, but regionally as well. In Romania, research, development and innovation could be among the factors that are accountable for the increasing regional disparities, as the territorial...

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The EU funding contribution to regional growth and regeneration in Romania : a focus on the North-East Region : 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 26-29, 2014, Sankt Petersburg, Russia

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Goschin, Zizi; Ileanu, Bogdan - 2014 - Draft

Romania's communist regime used forced industrialization and urbanization policies as a solution for speeding-up the pace of development in the lagging areas, which resulted in reducing regional disparities. However, after 1989 there areas were the first that suffered the hardships of economic...

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Accumulation of education and regional income growth : limited human capital effects in Norway

Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2011 - Date: February 1, 2011

Accumulation of education and geographic concentration of educated people in cities are expected to generate urban income growth. New economic geography predicts income divergence across regions. We investigate the dynamic process of accumulating tertiary education and regional income growth in...

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Market selection and regional diversification : empirical regularities from German panel-data

Noseleit, Florian - 2010

Several theoretical approaches to explaining economic growth focus on externalities arising from interactions between economic agents. A frequently discussed source of such externalities is regional diversity of the industry structure. A large number of empirical studies support the argument...

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The pattern of regional and local foreign trade specialization in Romania

Antonescu, Daniela - 2016

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Spatial dependence in house prices : evidence from China's interurban housing market

Gong, Yunlong; Boelhouwer, Peter J.; Haan, Jan de - 2014

"Spatial thinking" is increasingly popular in housing market studies and spatial dependence across properties has been widely investigated in the intra-city housing market. The contribution of this paper is to study the spatial dependence and spillover effect of house prices from an interurban...

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