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Creative Class vs. Individual Creativity - A Multi-level Approach to the Geography of Creativity

Alfken, Christoph - 2014

For more than ten years the topics creative class, creative industries and creative regions are on the agenda in economic geography literature. Contributions mainly focus on the distribution, mobility and economic impact of creative individuals or companies from a regional perspective. It is...

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Coherence of the EU cohesion policy and national regional policy: the case of the Czech Republic

Novosák, Jiøí - 2014

There is a high research and political interest in regional disparities now. Regional disparities are at the heart of prominent theories of regional development as well as of the ambitious project of European integration. Moreover, regional policies at various spatial levels are formulated in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400114

An analysis of the characteristics of firms and universities in shaping geographical distance of university-industry linkages

Renato, Garcia; Veneziano, Araujo; Suelene, Mascarini; … - 2015

University has being playing an increasing role in supporting innovation. In this way, university-industry linkages has become a growing subject in the literature, in order to understand how these relationships are shaped on space. Recent issue is about the role of geographical distribution of...

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Regional dynamics of economic performance in the EU: To what extent spatial spillovers matter?

Ozyurt, Selin; Dees, Stephane - 2015

This paper investigates the main determinants of economic growth in the European Union from a regional perspective. The … period 2002-2008. In addition to the traditional determinants of regional growth (such as investment, human capital … developments, innovation and infrastructure endowment), the growth analysis accounts for spatial effects related to the existence …

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The well-being of Russian cities: does location matter?

Ivanova, Vera - 2015

Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … instruments for population, I find a positive relationship between city size and city growth. In other words, cities converge in …

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Ubiquitous digital technologies and spatial structure: a preliminary analysis

Tranos, Emmanouil; Ioannides, Yannis - 2015

This paper sheds light on the potential effect that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) might generate on cities and spatial structure. The extensive theoretical discussion and speculation on how cities and geography might be affected by digital technologies, which took place before...

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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Sturm, Daniel; Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Redding, Stephen; … - 2013

This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...

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The tyranny of distance prevails: HTTP protocol latency and returns to fast fibre internet access network deployment in remote economies

Obren, Mark; Howell, Bronwyn - 2011

As public policies seek to advance deployment of enhanced broadband infrastructure as a means of acquiring economic advantage, the issue has arisen of the extent that additional economic performance accrues from increases in headline bandwidth speed in locations that are physically remote from...

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The persistent effects of regional policy - Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

Seidel, Tobias; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2014

In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the contemporaneous and persistent effects of regional policy. We apply a quasi-experimental identification strategy exploiting the fact that municipalities in the West-German Zonenrandgebiet (ZRG) were eligible for substantial regional transfers...

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Services, Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity: A Ricardo-Marshall Model

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2014

The last century has witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more of value added in...

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