The COVID-19 pandemic has critically tested OECD economies, with major differences in economic repercussions at the subnational level. The pandemic can be characterised as a combination of shocks to local economies: (i) a recession, (ii) a supply-side shock mirroring a natural disaster, and...

Albert Hirschman’s unbalanced growth hypothesis suggests that a developing economy can promote economic growth by initially investing in industries with high backward and forward linkages. In the case of Chinese economic policy today, one application would be the continued presence of the...

An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural transformation. This paper provides a political economy analysis of the lack of structural transformation in African cities, drawing on the Deals and Development framework. It...

We propose the concept of “inclusive economic resilience” and examine intra-regional economic recovery in American metropolitan areas after the Great Recession. Previous studies have treated regional and municipal economic resilience separately with little attention to within-region...

Socio-ecological transitions are a main project, current EU policies, national environmental politics, and regional as well as local action address. Manifold approaches exist and the European Union is anxious to coordinate and facilitate the process of a consolidated transition. Therefore, a...

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the "Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending", which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree...

The paper aims to examine the role of institutions relative to economic policy and geography in explaining the differential level of development across countries over time. To that end, it attempts to construct a Development Quality Index (DQI) and an Institutional Quality Index (IQI) by using...

The paper uses nonparametric methodology to examine the role of institutions in understanding differential levels of development across countries. This technique estimates first order derivatives for every country allowing a deeper look into the impact of institutions on development. The...

Wieder einmal ist der Aufbau Ost in die Diskussion gekommen: Sonderwirtschaftszone oder Förderung von Wachstumskernen - was ist der richtige Weg, um Deutschland wieder auf Wachstumskurs zu bringen? Für Dr. Klaus von Dohnanyi, Bundesminister a.D. und Vorsitzender des "Gesprächskreises Aufbau...

Wieder einmal ist der Aufbau Ost in die Diskussion gekommen: Sonderwirtschaftszone oder Förderung von Wachstumskernen - was ist der richtige Weg, um Deutschland wieder auf Wachstumskurs zu bringen? Für Dr. Klaus von Dohnanyi, Bundesminister a.D. und Vorsitzender des "Gesprächskreises Aufbau...