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variables for entrepreneurial innovation in various classes of European cities, a particular multivariate method - i.e., Regime … generates a wide range of interesting empirical results on innovation factors in European cities. … factors for innovation at the local level, based on micro survey information from firms. In seeking for prominent explanatory …
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networks involving cities and regions across Europe mapping them against a set of established criteria. Findings of the … initiatives and their regional or local implementation are taken into account. In order to better understand how cities and … regions initiate processes of change in relation to sustainability, this milestone focuses on networks of cities, regions and …
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In this study we argue for a 'Big Push' in infrastructure investments in greater Europe. We propose the building of a … Central Europe with the Black Sea area and the Caspian Sea littoral states. A state-of-the-art motorway and high-speed railway … circumstances and at continued low interest rates, an employment creation of over 7 million can be expected in greater Europe. The …
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The study concludes that Europe should respond to China's New Silk Road initiative with a coherent infrastructure … create 2-7 million new jobs and could increase GDP on average by 3.5% in Wider Europe over a ten-year period. Eastern Europe …
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survey conducted in 2009 in 33 European cities and analyse the probability of satisfaction with standard probit models …
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This paper analyzes urban-rural coordinated development in a region, where big city and large rural area coexist, and proposes some major institutional innovations. Our basic assumptions include: the existence of large rural area cannot be changed in the short term; people's mobility will...
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This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...
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We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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This paper argues that government quality – operationalized as the ability of government to treat all their citizens in an impartial way – levels the ‘playing field' for economic agents with and without connections to politicians and administrators in government, therefore encouraging...
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