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The impact of regional and demographic factors on the efficiency of German savings banks
Conrad, Alexander; Neuberger, Doris; Trigo Gamarra, Lucinda - 2009
This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on technical, cost, scale and revenue efficiency of German … differentiates between declining and growing regions. Regional and demographic factors explain part of the variation in efficiency … levels. Population density and branch penetration positively affect efficiency in growing regions. A negative impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319223
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The impact of regional and demographic factors on the efficiency of German savings banks
Conrad, Alexander; Neuberger, Doris; Trigo Gamarra, Lucinda - 2009
This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on technical, cost, scale and revenue efficiency of German … differentiates between declining and growing regions. Regional and demographic factors explain part of the variation in efficiency … levels. Population density and branch penetration positively affect efficiency in growing regions. A negative impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941228
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European trade integration in the Baltic Sea Region - A gravity model based analysis
Paas, Tiiu; Tafenau, Egle - 2005
The paper explores regional trade integration of the countries involved in the EU eastward enlargement (EU-25) processes distinguishing the possible regional trade clusters within EU-25 that may support integration of the EU-15 and the new member states. We examine whether the gravity equation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295460
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Regional effects of terrorism on tourism: Evidence from three Mediterranean countries
Drakos, Konstantinos; Kutan, Ali M. - 2001
A consumer-choice model developed by Enders, Sandler and Parise (1992) is utilized to study the regional effects of terrorism on competitors’ market shares in tourism sector where involved countries enjoy significant tourism activities but are subject to high frequency of terrorist attacks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301165
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Borders matter!: Regional integration in Europe and North America
Blum, Ulrich - 2001
We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model extended by a spatial correlation structures where data allows to evaluate the level of impact and the length of the spatial tail. This allows us to address to effects external to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305448
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Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2003
A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a tradeoff between short-run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting?) and long-run gains due to a higher chance of finding a job. We show that this optimal search intensity is higher in areas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262762
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It's a Small(er) World: The Role of Geography and Networks in Biotechnology Innovation
Johnson, Daniel K.N.; Mareva, Milena - 2002
Using patent citation data for the U.S., we test whether knowledge spillovers in biotechnology are sensitive to distance. Controlling for self-citation by inventor, assignee and examiner, cohort-based regression analysis shows that spillovers are local but that distance is becoming less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263260
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The effect of information and communication technologies on urban structure
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2007
Two innovations in the last century have changed dramatically the cost of communicating and transmitting information: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264169
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The creative class, bohemians and local labor market performance: a micro-data panel study for Germany 1975-2004
Möller, Joachim; Tubadji, Annie - 2008
The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. We apply two different es-timation methods, a panel VAR for the complete data set and a dynamic system ap-proach based on GMM for a modified data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267022
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New Firm Survival and Human Capital
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271742