In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...

Eco-innovation represents for the Basque Country an opportunity to grow while other environmental targets are achieved. In the Basque Country it can be considered that in 2011 about 161 M€ of the investment would be «green», 28% of the total investment in innovation. Using the Input-Out...

We examine patterns of regional adjustments to shocks in the US during the past four decades. We find that the response of interstate migration to relative labor market conditions has decreased, while the role of the unemployment rate as absorber of regional shocks has increased. However, the...

The article contains a review of the book «Regional economics and spatial developments This edition is a new major milestone in the Russian educational literature, and it will certainly be popular among teachers and students in the related specialties both at the economics departments and at...

This article defines and characterizes the cooperative ‘sector’ in the Paraná economy and disaggregates the sector Agriculture and components of Food Industry of the input-output table, made for the state for the years 1980 and 1985, in Cooperative and non-cooperative. The aim of this...

Both global and regional economic linkages have strengthened substantially over the past quarter century. We employ a dynamic factor model to analyze the implications of these linkages for the evolution of global and regional business cycles. Our model allows us to assess the roles played by the...

This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind the widely differing economic growth in Russian regions prior to the recent global financial crisis. Using data of regional growth in 1995–2006 for 77 Russian regions, it examines the growth drivers for the...

Article about the role of equilibrium in regional economic development and regional governance. The author proposes a system of index ratings disparities in socio-economic development of the regions of the Russian Federation.

The general equilibrium models got importance at the 70's for pointing tendencies that were, until that moment, not experienced by economics. One example was first petrol crisis which econometric models could not predict based on temporal series. On the other hand, the general equilibrium models...

The methodology originally developed by Sonis, Hewings, and Miyazawa (1997) is now expanded and discussed more horoughly when applied to an interregional table at the level of the 5 macro regions of the Brazilian economy for the year of 1995. The methodology used in this work is based on a...