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The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth : a spatial panel approach
Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015
The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
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Industrial clusters as source of prospering regions? : economic structure and regional performance 1996-2005
Kubis, Alexander; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2010
within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …
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Regionale Verteilung raumwirksamer finanzieller Staatshilfen im Kontext regionalwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung
Plankl, Reiner - 2012
Der Arbeitsbericht beschreibt unter Bezug auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung die regionale Verteilung regionalwirtschaftlich relevanter raumwirksamer finanzieller Staatshilfen in der Förderperiode 1995 bis 2008. Betrachtungseinheiten sind die Bundesländer sowie die ländlichen und nicht...
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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey
Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014
"Development" isn't only an economic notion but also it consist of so many meanings such as social, cultural manners, production and consumption ways. During the development process, development units could be growth in vary times and space. At this point what has to be told, which sector and...
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EU cohesion policy on the ground : analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data
Bachtrögler, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022
We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...
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Paying off populism : how regional policies affect voting behavior
Gold, Robert; Lehr, Jakob - 2024
This paper shows that regional policies can decrease populist support. We focus on the "development objective" (Objective-1) of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), meant to support lagging-behind regions. For causal inference, we exploit three sources of quasi-exogenous variation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500947
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EU cohesion policy on the ground : analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data
Bachtrögler, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022
We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013466939
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Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments : a panel data analysis for 28 EU member countries
Schmidt, Peter - 2016
This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...
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Does regional redistribution spur growth?
Koetter, Michael (contributor); Wedow, Michael (contributor) - 2008
After the German reunification, interregional subsidies accounted for approximately four percent of gross fixed capital investment in the new federal states. We show that between 1992 and 2005 infrastructure and (small) business aid had a negative net impact on regional economic growth. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794113
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Regional growth regimes revisited : the case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004
Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...
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