Modern (endogenous) growth theory tells us that knowledge spillovers are crucial for the growth of high-income economies. Against this background the paper provides a survey of theoretical and empirical findings highlighting the question of how geographically limited knowledge diffusion can help...

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...

In Bayern herrscht so etwas wie 'Brexit-Stimmung'. Die Stadt Neu-Ulm will aus ihrem Landkreis austreten und zu einer kreisfreien Stadt mit mehr Autonomie werden. Das baden-württembergische Reutlingen verfolgt bereits seit etlichen Jahren den gleichen Plan. Die Kreisfreiheit würde mehr...

Im Hinblick auf die Analyse wirtschaftlicher Wachstumsfaktoren stellt sich immer wieder die Frage nach regionalen Strukturunterschieden und deren Konsequenzen auf die Wachstumspotenziale einzelner Regionen. Am Beispiel von Sachsen-Anhalt wird dargestellt, wie regionale Standortfaktoren die...

Im Hinblick auf die Analyse wirtschaftlicher Wachstumsfaktoren stellt sich immer wieder die Frage nach regionalen Strukturunterschieden und deren Konsequenzen auf die Wachstumspotenziale einzelner Regionen. Am Beispiel von Sachsen-Anhalt wird dargestellt, wie regionale Standortfaktoren die...

Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries during the last three decades, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in...

This paper looks at the Cohesion Policy of the European Union (EU) and investigates how the EU agricultural and rural development policies shape its influence on regional growth. The analysis of the drivers of regional growth shows that the EU Regional Policy has a positive and significant...

A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...

The impact of structural funds of the European Union (EU) on regional economic growth is a matter of both political and economic importance. The large and regular payments made across the EU to countries and regions within them were and are meant to promote various aspects of growth and...

This paper describes regional touristic supply under the framework of territorial capital to understand which territorial assets are the most important for stimulating economic growth. We used spatial regression models to consider spatial dependencies among regions, and Bayesian Model Averaging...