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Spatial Distribution of Regional Innovation Growth Capability and Policy Responses
Huh, Mun-Gu; Kim, Yunsoo - 2023
Concerns are mounting over the potential for weak future growth as the Korean economy faces a wide range of structural issues including an aging society, a crisis in key regional industries, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to these concerns, the Korean government has established innovation growth...
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Regional differences in productivity in Sweden: Insights from OECD regions
André, Christophe - 2021
Regional inequality has increased in Sweden over the past decades, albeit from a low level. While redistribution and other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to maintaining economic dynamism, creating job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801203
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Coping with regional inequality in Sweden : structural change, migrations and policy, 1860-2000
Enflo, Kerstin; Rosés, Joan R. - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2012
regional income convergence can be divided into two major periods. During the first period (1860-1940), the unrestricted action … successive governments appears to have also been important for the evolution of regional income inequality. Regional convergence … was intense from 1940 to 1980. In this period, governments aided the convergence in productivity among industries and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659127
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Entrepreneurial developments and challenges in the Sud Muntenia region of Romania
Iordan, Marioara; Chilian, Mihaela-Nona - 2011
Entrepreneurship is crucial for the economic development of a region. Using entropy, cluster and shift-share analysis techniques, the authors present a detailed picture of the entrepreneurial milieu of the Sud Muntenia region of Romania, pointing both towards the presence of an overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540834
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Competitiveness factors at national and regional level : a panel analysis for Romania
Chilian, Mihaela Nona - 2012
The paper attempts to identify with the help of a panel model the presence of common or divergent development patterns and some significant factors of competitiveness at national and regional level (mainly regarding investment and employment, overall and by main economic sectors). The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522160
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Regional inequality and economic growth : interactions of the relationship with the level of economic development and speed of growth
Tafenau, Egle; Paas, Tiiu - 2010 - First draft
also refers to disparities in congestion costs in Western and Eastern European core regions. We conclude that growth … sustainable national growth, not on reducing regional disparities. …
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The persistent effects of place-based policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2015 - This version: May 2015
Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...
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Coherence of the EU cohesion policy and national regional policy : the case of the Czech Republic
Novosák, Jiří - 2014
There is a high research and political interest in regional disparities now. Regional disparities are at the heart of … policies at various spatial levels are formulated in order to reduce the problems arising from large regional disparities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491307
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Coping with inefficiencies in a New Economic Geography model
Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa; Kubin, Ingrid; … - 2012
This article introduces a social planner version of a model central to the New Economic Geography for explicitly answering whether the symmetric equilibrium outcome of the decentralized market economy is socially desirable. We find that savings incentives are too weak, resulting in an...
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Industry interconnectedness and regional economic growth in Germany
Shutters, Shade T.; Seibert, Holger; Alm, Bastian; … - 2021
Urban systems, and regions more generally, are the epicenters of many of today's social issues. Yet they are also the global drivers of technological innovation and thus it is critical that we understand their vulnerabilities and what makes them resilient to different types of shocks. We take...
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