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In this paper we describe the development of regional specialisation and geographical concentration in Germany between …. By and large and with some exceptions, this conclusion holds both for West Germany and Germany as a whole, as well as for …
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In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial characteristics of an economy, in our case the German economy. Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by...
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Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...
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Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms …
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West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative … real world case, here West Germany, shows that the model might help to explain regional growth patterns. …
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costs in the Swedish multinational enterprises' (MNEs?) decision to locate in Germany. We find that the location decision is … sensitive to the level of wage costs in Germany and in other potential locations in high-income Europe, but not to the level of … schwedischer Tochtergesellschaften in Deutschland im Vergleich mit denen in anderen Ländern untersucht. Es zeigt sich, dass die …
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The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...
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analyze recent stockbuilding trends in Germany, we propose a composite index aggregating information drawn from monthly …
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Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...
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This paper examines the consequences of using "real-time" data for business cycle analysis in Germany based on a novel …
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