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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2011

over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this high level of persistence observed could be that the region …

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Does fiscal decentralization foster regional investment in productive infrastructure?

Kappeler, Andreas; Solé-Ollé, Albert; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2012

Spending on productive infrastructure is seen as an important contributor to long term economic growth. Several authors have documented a downward trend in public investment during the last three decades and warned about its possible detrimental effects on the economy. A not well-realized fact...

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Regional unemployment in Germany : a spatial panel data analysis

Lottmann, Franziska - 2012

This empirical paper wants to analyze determinants for regional differences in German unemployment rates using a spatial panel model. The analysis of regional differences is of particular interest in the German case due to its specific history. Twenty-two years after German reunification, there...

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Bargaining power and local heroes : conference paper

Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Klein, Gordon - 2014

Retailer bargaining power is an important aspect of many international antitrust investigations. Size and market share analysis are often the cornerstones of bargaining power identification. However, other factors, like consumer behavior, i.e. "one-stop shopping", can heavily affect the...

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Network structures in regional innovation systems

Stuck, Jérôme; Brökel, Tom; Revilla Diez, Javier - 2014

While interactive learning and inter-organisational relations are fundamental building blocks in RIS theory, the framework is rarely related to investigations of regional knowledge network structures, because in RIS literature relational structures and interaction networks are discussed in a...

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Regional effects of a cluster-oriented policy measure : the case of the InnoRegio program in Germany

Brenner, Thomas; Emmrich, Carsten; Schlump, Charlotte - 2013

This paper examines regional effects of the InnoRegio program, which was conducted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional...

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Effect of the centrifugal and centripetal forces in core versus (semi)periphery in Central Europe countries

Maris, Martin - 2015

Evolution of the regional imbalances over the territory is closely linked with the development of commodity-cash relations and hence with creation of the market economy. Since the establishment of the market economy in most countries over the world; rent, interest, yield and wage became the major...

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Determinants of fast-growing SMEs' concentration in the Russian regions

Zemtsov, Stepan; Barinova, Vera; Sorokina, Alla - 2015

number of manufacturing firms in a region. The dataset was collected from SPARK (Professional market and company analysis …

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Regional characteristics and the survival of new firms

Karlsson, Charlie; Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2015

There is an abundant literature on industrial ecology aiming at explaining the survival propensity of recently started firms. The majority of the contributions concentrate on the characteristics of the entrepreneur, the new firm or the industry. Only a small minority of the existing studies...

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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey

Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014

the development in the region by using the endogenous growth theories. In the USA, Tennesse Valley Autority was the first … one that dealed with the construction of dams in the region and to ensure the production rate. In Europe, RDAs process … governors, NGOs and local autorities (municipalities). The head of the board of directors is local governor in the region …

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