Internationale Standortrankings sind in jüngerer Zeit zunehmend in die wissenschaftliche Kritik geraten. Sebastian Gundel und Ulrich van Suntum analysieren im Folgenden, inwieweit eine kritische Studie zum Länderranking von Ullrich Heilemann, Harald Lehmann und Joachim Ragnitz ihrem...

The paper provides an outline of the concept of regional growth regimes and empirically illustrates the relevance of the concept. The empirical examples are entrepreneurship, entry and the performance of new businesses in East and West Germany. The differences of the factors determining the...

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of...

Das Institut für Weltwirtschaft ist im Frühjahr 1989 von der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesregierung beauftragt worden, für die Denkfabrik des Ministerpräsidenten eine Studie über die Struktur und die -Entwicklungsperspektiven der Wirtschaft Schleswig-Holsteins durchzuführen. Aufgabe...

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the...