East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...

The agricultural frontier known as Matopiba, has shown considerable growth in recent years. This dynamism results from the agricultural production of grains such as soybean, corn and cotton in large properties and with use of machinery and equipment. Thus, the work measures aspects of the...

Die Bedeutung von Städten wächst. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysieren die Autoren die Entwicklung der 30 größten Städte Deutschlands seit 2010. Basis der Untersuchung ist das HWWI/Berenberg-Städteranking, mithilfe dessen gezeigt wird, dass sich die untersuchten Städte in den letzten Jahren...

Die intelligenten Spezialisierungsstrategien (RIS3) der EU sollen dazu dienen, wirtschaftliche Stärken von Regionen auszubauen, ihre Innovationsbasis zu stärken und Zukunftsbranchen zu entwickeln. Um regionale Disparitäten auszugleichen, kann diese Strategie aber nur eines von vielen...

Creative cities are seen as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. Yet, beyond case studies of a few high-profile cities, there is little empirical evidence on the link between local creative industries concentration and innovation. This paper addresses this gap...

This study estimates the weather sensitivity of rice yield in India, using disaggregated (district) level information on rice and high resolution daily weather data over the period 1969-2007. Compared to existing India specific studies on rice which consider only the effects of nighttime...

Urbanization in China has in part been subject to centrally planned control and in part has resulted from the pressures of industrialization and economic development. One of the major, if neglected, influences has been the social policies controlling internal migration and influencing...

There are a number of theoretical reasons why cities interact with each other. Such spatial interdependence has been largely ignored by the empirical literature with only a couple of recent papers accounting for such issues in their estimation. This paper takes spatial dependence panel data...

This paper is based on key-concepts of austrian economics (expectations, knowledge, institutions), and brings a complementary view in the theory of territory. Particularly, it will show that territories, through individual actions which are «located» within them, are private or...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net Domestic Product (SNDP) as an important proxy for...