Die sächsischen Exporte konzentrieren sich auf wenige Absatzmärkte. Besonders deutlich zeigt sich dies im Kraftfahrzeugbau, weniger ausgeprägt auch im Maschinenbau und in der Elektrotechnik. Diese Fokus sierung auf wenige Handelspartner bringt gewisse Risiken mit sich, welche durch weitere...

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...

Die Innovationsfähigkeit gewinnt durch die Globalisierung des Wettbewerbs zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dabei kommt den Metropolregionen eine wichtige Rolle zu. Die Autoren haben sechs deutsche Metropolregionen und aussagekräftige Innovationsindikatoren ausgewählt und untersuchen, welche dieser...

Over the last three decades the supply of economic statistics has vastly improved. Unfortunately, statistics on regional price levels (sub-national purchasing power parities) have been exempt from this positive trend, even though they are indispensable for meaningful spatial comparisons of...

This article studies entrepreneurial activities emerging out of one of Germany's most prominent dot.com firms: Intershop, a maker of e-commerce software. We show that Intershop spawned at least 30 spin-offs. The majority entered locally, giving rise to a small but growing software cluster and...

The net-zero agreement on carbon emission from Paris 2015 gives a key role to fossil-free energy technologies with an expected multifold growth rate over the coming decades, when successively replacing oil, coal, and gas. In this paper, we delve into the EU's competitive advantage in the...

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...

The purpose of the paper is to introduce the interdisciplinary research stream called Management geography towards the broadly defined field of management studies. Management geography is targeting the nexus between 'space and management' and encompasses the study of spatial factors, spatial...