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Factors explaining the spatial agglomeration of the creative class : empirical evidence for German artists
Alfken, Christoph; Brökel, Tom; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2013
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the relative importance of economic and amenity-related location factors for attracting talents or members of the creative class. While Florida highlights the role of amenities, openness, and tolerance, others instead emphasize the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303799
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Regional industrial structure, productivity, wealth and income distribution in German regions
Margarian, Anne - 2013
industrial structure and socio‐economic fundamentals can be identified statistically and whether they depend on agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317704
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Universities and innovation in space
Fritsch, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
We investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes. The contribution of universities is tested on the level of German NUTS-3 regions (Kreise) by using a variety of indicators. We find that the intensity and quality of the research conducted by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003376234
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Urban growth in Germany : the impact of localization and urbanization economies
Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009
This study examines the impact of localization and urbanization economies as well as the impact of city size on urban … growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to … known about agglomeration economies in Germany, where interregional support policy and the characteristics of the federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928711
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Spillover effects of spatial growth poles : a reconciliation of conflicting policy targets?
Kubis, Alexander (contributor); Titze, Mirko (contributor);  … - 2007
Regional economic policy faces the challenge of two competing policy goals - reducing regional economic disparities vs. promoting economic growth. The allocation of public funds has to weigh these goals particularly under the restriction of scarce financial re- sources. If, however, some region...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003525566
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Spatial development and the law of one price : evidence of convergence of land values
Capuno, Joseph J. - 2010
Many developing countries exhibit imbalanced spatial development, but corrective policies are hampered by lack of adequate sub-regional development data. Building on the insights of the factor price equalization theorem and by applying measures of spatial autocorrelation on land values, patterns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985581
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Regional industrial structure, productivity, wealth and income distribution in German regions
Margarian, Anne - 2013
industrial structure and socio‐economic fundamentals can be identified statistically and whether they depend on agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009745940
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A spatial interpretation of the persistency of China's provincial inequality
Yu, Xiaofan - 2011
China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra-provincial income inequality have been increasing and their respective contribution to the total income inequality remains relatively stable. Based on a new set of prefectural database...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364875
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Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Analysis : An Application to an Impact Evaluation Study
Affuso, Ermanno - 2011
This article presents a new framework for the impact evaluation studies of programs that aim to increase efficiency and productivity of firms. Likelihood ratio statistics support a spatial autoregressive stochastic production model that estimates the technical efficiencies of matched subsamples...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131483
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Geographic Concentration and Firm Survival
De Silva, Dakshina G. - 2011
If localization economies are present, firms within denser industry concentrations should exhibit higher levels of … survival has largely ignored the potential effects from agglomeration. Recent studies in urban and regional economics suggests … that agglomeration effects may be very localized. Analyses of industry concentration at the MSA or county-level may fail to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121377