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Selected Types of Infrastructure in the Czech Republic: A Regional Perspective
Suchacek, Jan - 2012
Transport, social as well as some other types of infrastructure represent an important component of system macrostructures. In advanced countries, these system macrostructures are usually – though not necessarily – approximately bound to the existing settlement system. There are only little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340740
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Economic Role of Population Density
Yegorov, Yuri - 2015
The role of population density for economic activity was neglected in most part of economic theory. This paper is a review and extension of the previous works of the author in this field. So far, densities did not become common economic variables in economic analysis, and two countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400438
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From Periphery to Core: Economic Adjustments to High Speed Rail
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - 2010
This paper presents evidence that high speed rail systems sustainably promote economic activity within regions that enjoy an increase in accessibility. Our results one the one hand confirm expectations that have led to huge public investments into high speed rail all over the world, suggesting...
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Market Structure and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
Yegorov, Yuri - 2015
Sustainable use of natural resources becomes an important issue today not only due to global warming and pollution issues but also because of critical pressure on the Earth?s regeneration possibility. We cannot use classical microeconomic approach here for two reasons: a) impossibility to create...
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How to Measure the Local Economic Impact of the Universities' Third Mission Activities?
Zuti, Bence; Lukovics, Miklós - 2015
Nowadays it is more and more important to know that how certain units of regional economy (enterprises, higher education institutions, other units) affect local economy. The economic impact analysis of higher education institutions is more complex than the impact analysis of enterprises, since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632887
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Stimulating the Division of Innovative Labor by Regional Competition for R&D Subsidies – A New Approach in German Innovation Policy
Eickelpasch, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael - 2004
The paper deals with a new approach in German innovation policy that organizes contests of initiatives for public funds. Based on an overview of the different programs we investigate the advantages and problems of such an approach. We find that this type of policy may have a large impact and...
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Growth of GRP in Chinese Provinces. A Test for Spatial Spillovers.
Sandberg, Krister - 2004
This paper examines the provincial pattern of growth in China during the period 1985–2000, testing the hypothesis that provinces with similar growth rates are more spatially clustered than would be expected by chance. The provincial economic growth is explained by the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011319014
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Income convergence, migration and geography: Distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Stokke, Hildegunn; Rattso, Jorn - 2010
Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among regions in an integrated market with high mobility of labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332311
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The geography of French agricultural co-operatives: An explanatory spatial data analysis
Sébastien, Chantelot; Maryline, Filippi; Stéphanie, … - 2010
Agricultural cooperatives represent nearly 75% of all farmers in France. They have become major actors in the … the agglomeration patterns for agricultural cooperative system in France in 2005. We adopt a methodology allowing the …, 1995) allow us to shed light on the uneven geographic distribution of the cooperative system across France and to identify …
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Spinoffs and M&A as drivers of spatial clustering: The evolution of the Dutch banking sector in the Amsterdam region in the period 1850-1993
Boschma, Ron; Wenting, Rik - 2010
There is little understanding of how clusters evolve, and where. While dynamic analyses of clusters hardly exist, this is especially true for spatial clustering of service industries. We take an evolutionary perspective to describe and explain why the Dutch banking cluster clustered in the...
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