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In a bold legislative move, in 2009 Germany introduced a fundamental reform of the government borrowing rules which are specified in its constitu-tion. In particular, state governments will be required to provide a balanced budget, abstracting from cyclical fluctuations, starting in the year...
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Deutschland hat im August 2009 eine Schuldenregel im Grundgesetz verankert. Die Bundesländer müssen bis 2020 ihre Ausgaben grundsätzlich ohne Kredite finanzieren. Konjunkturbedingte Defi zite sind weiterhin möglich, die in konjunkturell guten Zeiten ausgeglichen werden müssen. Das RWI hat...
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53 Städte, darunter elf kreisfreie, vier Landkreise, drei Bezirksregierungen und zwei Landschaftsverbände - das Ruhrgebiet ist eine Region von wohl einzigartiger administrativer Fragmentierung. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund des steigenden Kostendrucks der öffentlichen Verwaltung steht diese...
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This article applies the novel concept of global panel cointegration to analyze the role played by trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) activity in driving regional total factor productivity (TFP). Using West German state-level data for the period 1976–2008, the approach allows us to...
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This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...
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The paper studies the containment effects of public health measures to curb the spread of Covid‐19 during the first wave of the pandemic in spring 2020 in Germany. To identify the effects of six compound sets of public health measures, we employ a spatial difference‐in‐differences...
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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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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Rolle von intersektoralen FuE-Spillovereffekten für das sektorale Produktivitätswachstum anhand eines Datensatzes für zwölf OECD-Volkswirtschaften im Zeitraum 1980 bis 2004. Im Rahmen der empirischen Analyse werden mithilfe von panelökonometrischen...
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