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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2003
historically emerged as the core. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor gives unions and governments in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262711
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Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition
Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - 2009
This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264594
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Agglomeration, tax competition, and fiscal equalization
Wrede, Matthias - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal equalization on asymmetric tax competition when positive agglomeration … provided that agglomeration externalities are sufficiently strong. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265863
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Industry Concentration and Regional Innovative Performance – Empirical Evidence for Eastern Germany
Schwartz, Michael; Hornych, Christoph - 2009
Regarding technological innovativeness, the transformed economy of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) clearly lags behind the Western part of the country. To face this weakness, a broad mixture of policy measures was carried out in recent years. Particular attention is drawn to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267039
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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast majorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269597
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Political Institutionalisation and Economic Specialisation in Polycentric Metropolitan Regions – The Case of the East-German ‘Saxony Triangle’
Franz, Peter; Hornych, Christoph - 2009
The rising attention of politicians as well as scientists in the EU to the large urban agglomerations as centres of economic growth is accompanied by political efforts to identify and to demarcate such agglomerations under the label 'metropolitan regions'. This study develops a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269921
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Heterogeneous Skills and Homogeneous Land: Segmentation and Agglomeration
Wrede, Matthias - 2010
agglomeration. The core region, being more attractive to high skilled workers, has a disproportionately large share of production at … all levels of the supply chain. The paper studies the effects on segmentation and agglomeration of interregional trade in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270173
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Modelling the folk theorem of spatial economics: A heterogeneous regional growth model
Klarl, Torben - 2009
uneven economic distribution of specific economic activity, which implies that knowledge spillover, agglomeration and … model, which links first time knowledge spillover, agglomeration, distribution of per capita productivity and the grasp of … agglomeration and distribution of per capita productivity. One of key findings is, that grasp of knowledge affects dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270410
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Heterogenous skills and homogeneous land: segmentation and agglomeration
Wrede, Matthias - 2009
agglomeration. The core region, being more attractive to high skilled workers, has a disproportionately large share of production at … all levels of the supply chain. The paper studies the effects on segmentation and agglomeration of interregional trade in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271170
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Limits to industrial agglomeration
Junius, Karsten - 1996
equal dispersion of industries, this paper explains why limits to industrial agglomeration can be observed in reality. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275288