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[Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS regions in Europe with 'subjective' indicators for human and social capital]

Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens … - 2015

Most of the aggregate level analyses on the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in...

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Economic development of ultra small peripheral regions of West Europe : (case of Aland and Faroe islands)

Efimova, Elena G.; Kuznecova, Natalija P. - 2014

-peripheries>> areas due to the special industrial organization development, stimulated by the national and the EU economic policy. A …-peripheries>> areas due to the special industrial organization development, stimulated by the national and, partially, the EU economic …

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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of … contrasted with a non-equilibrium economics perspective on EU regional policy. Based on this, the existence of market failures … and the relevance of equilibrium economics for a realistic understanding of and policy advice for EU regional policy are …

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Cohort size and youth unemployment in Europe : a regional analysis

Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2014

Will the projected decline in the youth share of European countries' populations alleviate the currently high levels of youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes in the relative size of age groups will cause...

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Closure in inter-regional knowledge networks : an application to the European co-publication network

Bergé, Laurent R. - 2014

The question of the determinants of inter-regional knowledge flows has received a growing interest in the recent past. Particularly, the question of the relationship between geography and networks has been debated. Yet, at the inter-regional level, there is no study assessing the effect of...

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Subsidiarity integrated BCC-CR : a model of sustainable local finance : 54° European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, August 2014 - San Pietroburgo

Confessore, Giuseppe; Turina, Maurizio; Turina, Sandro; … - 2014

In more than 130 years, the cooperative banks and rural banks, have become a best practice, widespread in all the Italian regions so as to become, through Federcasse, a federal system included among the 130 European banks, referents ECB. A model that today has about 400 local banks and that,...

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What explains the diversity of regulatory reform outcomes? : final report

Stankov, Petar; Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2015

We set up a tractable general equilibrium (GE) model to study how output of firms of different size grows after entry and labor reforms. We then take the model predictions to the largest global publicly available firm-level data set: the Enterprise Surveys data. The results demonstrate that...

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Technology adoption, turbulence and the dynamics of unemployment

Duernecker, Georg - 2011

The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 1970s. Evidence suggests that European economies have lagged behind the United States in the adoption and usage of new...

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Identifying the shocks behind business cycle asynchrony in Euroland

Trenkler, Carsten; Weber, Enzo - 2012

This paper investigates which shocks drive asynchrony of business cycles in the euro area. Thereby, it unites two strands of literature, those on common features and on structural VAR analysis. In particular, we show that the presence of a common cycle implies collinearity of structural impulse...

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Public policy for the agro-food industry and economic performance of enterprises : evidences from Piedmont, Italy

Pagliarino, Elena; Cariola, Monica; Pavone, Sara; … - 2014

The European Union has a common rural development policy, motivated by the fact that more than 90% of the entire European territory can be classified as rural and 56% of European citizens live in rural areas. Each Member State sets out a Rural Development Programme (RDP) focused on three main...

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