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The competitiveness of global port-cities : the case of Hamburg - Germany

Merk, Olaf; Hesse, Markus - 2012

This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the Port of Hamburg, as well as an analysis of the port?s impact on its territory and an assessment of relevant policies and governance. It examines port performance in the last decade and identifies the principal factors that have...

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Regional age structure and economic growth : an econometric study for German regions

Brunow, Stephan; Hirte, Georg - 2009

This paper analyses the impact of the regional age structure on growth of German regions. Based on a neoclassical growth model an augmented Solow model was derived and estimated in a spatial econometric approach. Besides labor and human capital, public spendings and urbanisation measures are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003841960

Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...

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Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration

Geppert, Kurt; Happich, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2005

research. In this paper we examine whether there are overlapping trends of regional development in the EU: overall convergence … estimation, Markov chain analysis and cross-sectional regressions provide evidence that convergence of regional per-capita income …

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Regional Growth Regimes Revisited - The Case of West Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004

Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...

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The Effects of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004

In our analysis of the impact of new business formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags. We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on...

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Local employment growth in West Germany : a dynamic panel approach

Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...

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Convergence of regions from 23 EU member states

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor); … - 2006

Convergence of EU regions is an often examined research question. However, there are no studies available which include … in their analysis the New Member States from the former Eastern Bloc. We estimate several models of absolute convergence … and of conditional convergence taking into account the different initial conditions of the regions from each country …

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The Impact of Neutral and Nonneutral Productivity Growth on Creative Capital in a Trading Regional Economy

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2011

We analyze a two-sector model of a trading creative regional economy (TCRE) of the sort studied by Florida. Our analysis focuses on two cases. The first (second) case concerns the impact of faster neutral (non-neutral) productivity growth in the tradable sector on the employment of creative...

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Contribution of Culture to the Regional Growth of Spanish Economy (Contribución de la Cultura al Crecimiento de la Economía Regional Española) (Spanish)

Peña Sánchez, Antonio Rafael - 2011

weaker regions, in order to facilitate a process of regional convergence that makes a high degree of economic and social …

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