The opening up of the Mexican economy completely transformed the growth dynamics of the per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country's various states, with a clear tendency towards growth being concentrated in specific regions. In this study, we quantify the indirect or spillover...

Economic development has resulted in structural transformation towards economies based on services, which has raised some concerns about the limited opportunities for sustaining productivity growth. The aim of this paper is to examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the service sector...

Along with the development of economies based on knowledge, the importance of knowledge input in production processes has been increasing. Enterprises may acquire knowledge input by developing their internal knowledge base and/or purchasing knowledge from external entities. Their internal...

Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob die Entwicklung der FuE-Aufwendungen im Verlauf der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008/2009 neben konjunkturellen Einflüssen auch von den jeweiligen FuE-Schwerpunkten der Länder abhängig gewesen ist. Dabei wird zunächst der Blick auf...

Vor 50 Jahren untersuchte der Ökonom William J. Baumol eine Beobachtung, die er theoretisch unterlegte: Dienstleistungen verteuern sich rascher als materielle Güter. Dieser Beitrag würdigt Baumols bahnbrechende Idee und zeigt, dass sie noch immer eine hohe theoretische und eine große...

This paper analyse the way how the sustainable developments components are interacting between them and reflects on a possible trade-off between social, human, economic, technological and environmental progress. In this context, I have computed the Pearson correlation coefficient between the...

Populismus ist auf der gesamten Welt in unterschiedlichsten Formen zu finden. Um die Auswirkungen auf die Weltwirtschaft näher zu beleuchten, wurden im April die Teilnehmer am ifo World Economic Survey zu den ökonomischen Folgen des Populismus in ihrem Land befragt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass...

This paper aims to shed light on the evolution of regional disparities with respect to economic activity, productivity and employment across the European Union. While the "multiple Speeds of Europe" are a buzzword often quoted to underpin different political strategies and visions, they are...

Nordhaus (2008) has developed a testing strategy for what he calls "Baumol's diseases", by which name he designates a number of by-products of structural change that are unwanted from an economic policy perspective. He finds that the U.S. economy is strongly affected by the "diseases". This...