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Cultural diversity and economic performance : evidence from European regions

Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco … - 2009

We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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Technology, learning, and long run economic growth in leading and lagging regions

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...

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Innovation, decentralization, and planning in a multi-region model of Schumpeterian economic growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with N heterogeneous regions. For each region i where i=1,...,N, our analysis leads to five findings. First, we define the balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium...

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Schumpeterian Creative Class Competition, Innovation Policy, and Regional Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2018

We focus on a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida. The creative class is broadly composed of existing and candidate entrepreneurs. The general question we analyze concerns the effects of Schumpeterian competition between existing and candidate entrepreneurs on economic growth...

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Schumpeterian Creative Class Competition, Innovation Policy, and Regional Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2018

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A Two-Sector Model of Creative Capital Driven Regional Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2018

We study aspects of economic growth in a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida. We model creativity by supposing that the region under study has two sectors. The first sector uses physical capital {K(t)} and trained workers {A(t)W(t)} to produce creative capital {R(t)}. The...

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Output, Growth, and Convergence in a Creative Region : An Analysis of Some Measurement Issues

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017

creative regions. We focus first (second) on absolute (relative) convergence. In the absolute (relative) convergence case, the … convergence case, we analyze how to estimate the speed of convergence parameter (σ) and then discuss the relationship between the … variance of y<sub>j</sub>(t) and that of y<sub>j</sub>(0). In the relative convergence case, we study the error associated with …

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Human Capital, Knowledge Spillovers, and One Kind of Semi-Endogenous Regional Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2015

We study the implications of the interaction between human capital and knowledge spillovers for one kind of semi-endogenous economic growth in a region. We focus on two cases. In the first (second) case, there is no growth (growth) in the stock of human capital but knowledge spillovers are...

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On Economic Growth and Investment Income Taxation in a Creative Region

Donovan, Pierce - 2015

We study economic growth and investment income taxation in a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida. Specifically, this region possesses both creative and physical capital. Of the two sectors in this region, one produces final consumption goods and the other produces investment...

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