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Productivity growth in the old and new Europe : the role of agglomeration externalities

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele; Usai, Stefano - 2011

The recent history of Europe is characterized by a dual picture showing the Old and New countries in sharp contrast with respect to their industrial specialisation and economic performance. We aim at analyzing the intertwined performance of regions and industries in New and Old European...

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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011

regions of EU27. Our main results indicate that the highly educated creative group is the most relevant one in explaining …

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Development of trade blocs in an era of globalization : proximity still matters

Kohl, Tristan; Brouwer, Aleid E. - 2011 - Version: 19 May 2011, first preliminary draft

This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade...

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Do cross-border commuters suffer from education-job mismatch?

Huber, Peter - 2011

migrants in this respect. We find that cross-border commuters and recent migrants from EU15 countries have lower over- but …

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Detecting the growth pattern(s) of the EU border regions : a convergence clubs approach

Artelaris, Panagiotis; Kallioras, Dimitris; Topaloglu, … - 2011

The EU regions have been experiencing a period of unprecedented change. The ongoing (and parallel) processes of EU … milieu, the paper aims at detecting and assessing growth determinants at the EU borderlands. This is an issue that has … complexity of border issues. The study area covers 349 EU NUTS III border regions, as they are specified by ESPON. The findings …

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Estimates of the impact of static and dynamic knowledge spillovers on regional factor productivity

Lesage, James P.; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2010

We develop an empirical approach to examine static and dynamic knowledge externalities in the context of a regional total factor productivity relationship. Static externalities refer to current period scale or industry-size effects which have been labeled localization externalities or...

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