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The regional significance of university locations in Lower Saxony
Stöver, Britta - 2019
-side contributions of the university locations within Lower-Saxony using a combination of multiplier analysis and spatial econometrics on … or a selected university location but gives a complete picture of the importance and significance of all university … results give a complete and reproducible impression of the importance and significance of the different university locations …
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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529853
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More publicly funded research, more knowledge spillovers, more economic growth? : an empirical analysis for German regions
Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas; Mitze, Timo - 2018
differentiating between public research activities conducted by universities, technical colleges (Fachhochschulen) and non-university … between the publication rate of non-university research institutes and regional investment and employment rates. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794063
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The application of local indicators for categorical data (LICD) in the spatial analysis of economic development
Pietrzak, Michał Bernard; Wilk, Justyna; Kossowski, Tomasz - 2014
The objective of this paper is to identify classes of regions presenting different economic situations and apply a join-count test to examine spatial dependences between these classes. The test examines spatial autocorrelation on the basis of qualitative data. The global join-count test...
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The role of R&D-intensive clusters for regional competitiveness
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Mitze, Timo - 2020
Modern cluster theory provides reasons for positive external effects that accrue from the interaction of spatially proximate firms operating in common and related fields of economic activity. In this paper, we examine the impact of R&D-intensive clusters as a key factor of regional...
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Analysis of French-Hungarian trade relations : a gravity-model approach
Éltető, Andrea - 1996
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Markov or not Markov : this should be a question
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2001
Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence, imposes some very restrictive assumptions upon the data generating process, these assumptions have generally been taken for granted so far. The present paper proposes, resp. recalls...
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On the predictability of knowledge formation : the tortuous link between regional specialisation, trade and development
Bretschger, Lucas - 1999
The paper examines the relation between industrial mix and regional productivity growth. For this purpose, a dynamic model of the open economy with differentiated sectoral knowledge formation and incomplete interregional knowledge diffusion is constructed. The theoretical framework is first used...
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Regional stabilization by fiscal equalization? : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from Germany
Büttner, Thiess - 1999
In the context of EMU fiscal equalization schemes have been proposed as a means to stabilize regions against asymmetric shocks. A theoretical analysis shows that besides reducing the cross-sectional income variance the redistributive element of fiscal equalization causes incentive effects for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442662
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Knowledge spillovers as a central element in theories about knowledge-based regional development : advancement in theory and obstacles for empirical research
Franz, Peter - 2010
As scientists and policymakers tend to interpret changes in the economy as a trend towards an increasingly knowledge-based economy, their recommendations and strategies for regional economic development frequently contain elements how to intensify the knowledge flows in the region concerned....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950729