The Chinese government has established policies to promote its industrial sectors and to develop coastal provinces since the late 1978. To investigate the extent and reason the output growth in China has been influenced by these policies, an error-component model is employed to decompose the...

We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...

Die ostdeutschen Länder stehen in den nächsten Jahren vor mehreren Herausforderungen: Zum einen führt der demographische Wandel zu einem zunehmenden Fachkräftemangel in den Unternehmen, zum anderen ist hauptsächlich durch die Degression des Solidarpaktes II und die Verringerung der...