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Creative industries, new business formation, and regional economic growth

Piergiovanni, Roberta; Carree, Martin; Santarelli, Enrico - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 539-560

In this article we explore the impact of a series of factors, including creativity, intellectual property rights activities, new business formation, and the provision of amenities, on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces over the period spanning 2001 to 2006. Provincial growth rates are...

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Policies for local development: An evaluation of Italy's “Patti Territoriali”

Accetturo, Antonio; de Blasio, Guido - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 15-26

In Italy, Patti Territoriali (Territorial Pacts, TPs) are one of the most important government sponsored programs aimed at fostering growth in disadvantaged areas. A TP is an agreement between local governments and representatives of civil society (mainly entrepreneurs and trade unions) of a...

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Lake Amenities, Environmental Degradation, and Great Lakes Regional Growth

Stephens, Heather; Partridge, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Regional migration and growth are increasingly associated with high-quality in situ natural amenities. However, most of the previous U.S. research has focused on the natural amenities of the Mountain West or the South. The Great Lakes, with their abundant fresh water and natural amenities, would...

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The convergence process of the European regions: the role of Regional Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy

Montresor, Elisa; Pecci, Francesco; Pontarollo, Nicola - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 113 (2011) 2

The study investigates the convergence of labour productivity in 204 NUTS2 regions of the EU-15 between 1995 and 2006 … Common Agricultural Policy) have been effective in promoting economic growth and fostering the process of convergence of EU … Regression (GWR) in order to obtain consistent estimates of both the convergence parameters Î² and the impact of the conditioning …

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Uncovering the Factors behind Comparative Regional Economic Performance: A Multi-regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Approach

Giesecke, James; Madden, John - In: Regional Studies 44 (2010) 10, pp. 1329-1349

Giesecke J. A. and Madden J. R. Uncovering the factors behind comparative regional economic performance: a multi-regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach, Regional Studies. Recently, a new method has emerged for uncovering the factors driving regional growth disparities. The method...

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Knowledge Coherence, Variety and economic Growth: Manufacturing Evidence from Italian Regions

Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2010

This paper elaborates a view on knowledge as a result of a combinatorial search activity, so as to investigate its effects on economic growth at the regional level. Empirical estimations corroborate the hypothesis that knowledge coherence and variety, besides the traditional measure of knowledge...

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Local financial development and growth

Kendall, Jake - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 36 (2012) 5, pp. 1548-1562

Using unique, district-level, economic growth data, I investigate the connection between banking sector development, human capital, and economic growth in Indian districts. Disaggregate data helps avoid many of the omitted variable problems that plague similar cross-country studies. The data...

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Trends and cycles in regional economic growth

Henning, Martin; Enflo, Kerstin; Andersson, Fredrik N.G. - In: Explorations in Economic History 48 (2011) 4, pp. 538-555

Using a novel dataset of regional GDP per worker from 1860 to 2009, this paper analyzes communalities in regional long-term growth trajectories for 24 Swedish regions. Wavelet Analysis and Principal Component Analysis are used to decompose regional growth trajectories and assess the extent that...

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Knowledge Structure and Regional Economic Growth: The French case

Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2011

The paper investigate the effects of knowledge on economic growth at the regional level Methodology approach: We elaborate a view on knowledge as the result of a combinatorial search activity and implement indicators synthesizing the network architecture of knowledge structure Findings:...

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Local labour market conditions and the spatial mobility of science and technology university students: evidence from Italy

Dotti, Nicola Francesco; Fratesi, Ugo; Lenzi, Camilla; … - In: Review of Regional Research 34 (2014) 2, pp. 119-137

In the knowledge era, the importance of highly-qualified human capital has been widely recognized as a key factor for local economic development, especially for those areas specialized in science and technology (S&T). Assuming a regional perspective, the capacity to attract this kind of people...

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