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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?

Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

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Measuring regional competitiveness : a survey of approaches, measurement and data

Békés, Gábor - 2015

This paper reviews a set of issues related to the concept and measurement of regional competitiveness. First, the concept of growth and competitiveness is argued to be different at regional level from the national level. In particular, the relationship between agglomeration and performance, the...

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The revitalization of older industrial cities : a review essay of retooling for growth

Bartik, Timothy J. - 2008

This review essay debates the policy issues raised by the book Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America's Older Industrial Areas, edited by Richard M. McGahey and Jennifer S. Vey (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). I argue that the main rationale for adopting policies to...

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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

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Suburbanization in Greece : the informal transformation of Maroussi into the economic hub of Athens

Chorianopoulos, I.; Karvounis, A.; Ballas, D.; Phelps, N. - 2013

Greek cities are a seminal part of the Mediterranean urbanization thesis. Corresponding features include the comparatively belated occurrence of urban in-migration, the particularity of the urban pull factors, and the unplanned nature of urban expansion. The considerable and extensive...

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Language and political power in the setting of a regional economic model : application to Brussels

Heyndrickx, Christophe; Proost, Stef - 2013

The city of Brussels has a unique position in Europe. It is not only the capital city of the European Union, it also the capital of federal state of Belgium, of its two different language communities and of the government of the Brussels region. Independent of this, the city itself is composed...

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Trends in restructuring NMS regional economies as responses to transformation, crisis and EU membership : a spotlight on Suceava county in Romania : 54th Congress of European Regio...

Ileanu, Bogdan; Goschin, Zizi; Constantin, Daniela-Luminita - 2014 - Draft

The current research has concentrated on the following questions: What are the trends in restructuring Suceava's economy and which regional development factors were the most important (exogenous, endogenous, structural, socio-political ones, etc.)? Which is the relationship between social...

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Development strategy for the hill districts of Uttarakhand

Mittal, Surabhi (contributor); Tripathi, Gaurav (contributor) - 2008

Uttarakhand, in spite of being a small state, has certain key features that make it distinct from other states of the … Uttarakhand hills should be based on developing brand equity under the name of Organic Green State and an Uttarakhand Brand Equity … with industry and tourism. -- Uttarakhand ; Development Strategy ; Organic Green State …

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BioRegio, BioProfile and the rise of the German biotech industry

Dohse, Dirk (contributor); Staehler-Dohse, Tanja (contributor) - 2008

The BioRegio contest and the BioProfile contest initiated by the German Federal Government have drawn much international attention as prototypes of a new kind of technology policy aiming at the exploitation of regional innovation and growth potential through clustering. There is, however, little...

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The EU funding contribution to regional growth and regeneration in Romania : a focus on the North-East Region : 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 26-29...

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Goschin, Zizi; Ileanu, Bogdan - 2014 - Draft

Romania's communist regime used forced industrialization and urbanization policies as a solution for speeding-up the pace of development in the lagging areas, which resulted in reducing regional disparities. However, after 1989 there areas were the first that suffered the hardships of economic...

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