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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824122
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Remotely-sensed market activity as a short-run economic indicator in rural areas of developing countries
von Carnap, Tillmann - 2021
Effective targeting of social policies and their rigorous evaluation requires relevant and accurate data. With the majority of the world's poor depending on agriculture and informal businesses for their livelihoods, information on these sectors is particularly valuable. I use high-frequency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311405
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Is entrepreneurship a leading or lagging indicator of the business cycle? : evidence from UK self-employment data
Parker, Simon C.; Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A. - In: International small business journal : researching … 30 (2012) 7, pp. 736-753
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753455
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Forecasting regional labour markets with GVAR models and indicators
Schanne, Norbert - 2010
The development of employment and unemployment in regional labour markets is known to spatially interdependent. Global Vector-Autoregressive (GVAR) models generate a link between the local and the surrounding labour markets and thus might be useful when analysing and forecasting employment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574910
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998168
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Indices of Regional Economic Activity for Russia
Smirnov, Sergey V. - 2017
Regional statistics published by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) are reviewed in terms of quality, and radical disagreement between “month-on-month” and “year-on-year” monthly statistics is identified. In view of this, an original method is proposed for estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950232
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Quantitative Clusteridentifikation auf Ebene der deutschen Stadt- und Landkreise (1999 - 2008)
Rukwid, Ralf; Christ, Julian P. - 2011
entstand eine Datenbank mit Cluster-Messwerten, die flächendeckend für ganz Deutschland eine präzise Verortung von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385373
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Anmerkung zur Identifikation von Förderregionen in der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Türck, Matthias - 2007
The indicators get different weights, when they are summarised to one figure. This weighting scheme is problematic for different reasons. On the one hand, the used transformations of the variables are non-permissible. On the other hand, the weighting of the indicators is not meaningful, because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266909
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Forecasting GDP at the regional level with many predictors
Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
In this paper, we assess the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts at the regional level using a unique data set at quarterly frequency. We forecast gross domestic product (GDP) for two German states (Free State of Saxony and Baden-Württemberg) and Eastern Germany. We overcome the problem of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685344