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Endogenous or exogenous innovation development in industry on regional level?
Świadek, Arkadiusz - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 4, pp. 70-85
At the moment endogenous growth theory has become increasingly popular in the world of science, particularly in developed countries. This article aims to show, for two regions case, the needs and sense of applying this theory in the polish regions. Due to the low level of economic development of...
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Agglomeration economies and urban productivity
Torres Gutierrez, Tania Paola; Ordóñez, Jessica Andrea - In: REGION 6 (2019) 1, pp. 17-24
This study explores the relationship between agglomeration economies and industrial productivity between 1980 and 2010 …
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Labor pooling as an agglomeration factor: Evidence from the Brazilian Northeast in the 2002-2014 period
de Almeida, Edilberto Tiago; Rocha, Roberta Moraes - In: EconomiA 19 (2018) 2, pp. 236-250
This is a pioneering study of Brazil of the importance of labor pooling to explain industrial agglomeration in the …
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Are cooperative firms more agile? A contingency perspective on small and medium-sized enterprises in agglomerations and peripheral areas
Mueller, Elisabeth F.; Jungwirth, Carola - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2020) 1, pp. 281-302
agglomerated SMEs can seize the abundant opportunities to cooperate in order to counter agglomeration diseconomies such as …
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Does the crisis change the nature of agglomeration economies in Indonesia? A productivity analysis of pre-post 1997-1998 financial crisis
Khoirunurrofik, Khoirunurrofik - In: REGION 7 (2020) 2, pp. 85-106
By examining their source and magnitude, this paper looked at the changes in the nature of Indonesia's agglomeration …, with the former generating a stronger effect than the latter. Furthermore, types of agglomeration externalities have … agglomeration economies and how the agglomeration sources changed across the crisis periods in favour of localisation economies. The …
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Nobody’s gonna slow me down? The effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior
Branco, Catarina; Dohse, Dirk C.; Pereira dos Santos, João - In: Journal of Urban Economics 136 (2023), pp. --
We study the firm-level responses to a substantial increase in transportation costs in the wake of a quasi-experiment that introduced tolls in a subset of Portuguese highways. Exploiting a unique dataset encompassing the universe of Portuguese private firms, we find that the introduction of...
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El contagio en el fracaso empresarial como consecuencia de la proximidad geográfica: Un análisis con los estadísticos join-count aplicado al sector servicios
Rodríguez Fuentes, Christian Camilo; Maté … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 23 (2017), pp. 75-97
This paper aims to contrast the spillover effects in business failure derived from the geographic proximity among firms of the same sector. To get this purpose, we develop an empirical application based on the analysis of the join-count statistics on a sample of firms of service sector located...
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European Union and Romanian Tourism – ß and s Convergence in the Economic Development Regions of Romania
Butnaru, Gina Ionela; Niță, Valentin - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 42, pp. 369-384
At present, both in Romania and in Europe, tourism tends to become one of the biggest industries, with great development possibilities in the future. The economic development of Romania including tourism benefits from the support of the European Union, and has the purpose to reduce the gaps in...
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Different samples, different results? How sampling techniques affect the results of field experiments on ethnic discrimination
Auspurg, Katrin; Schneck, Andreas; Thiel, Fabian - In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility forthcoming (2020)
This paper explores a possible sampling bias in field experiments through a unique combination of a large-scale field experiment on ethnic discrimination in the German rental housing market (N = 2,992 tested apartments) and data on the internet housing market where the apartments were sampled...
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The impact of agglomeration economies on hospital input prices
Friedson, Andrew I.; Li, Jing - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 38, pp. 1-15
This paper examines the extent to which agglomeration of the hospital service industry enhances the productivity of … influence the cost of intermediate services only through the cost of running a lab. Our findings suggest that agglomeration of …
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