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Do institutions matter for regional economic growth and development? : the case of Turkey : ERSA 2011 Congress: 30th August-03rd September 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Degirmenci, Serkan - 2011

Many cross-country studies acknowledge the indispensable role of institutions in promoting economic growth and in sustaining economic development. So, their emphases have shifted to determine the most influential institution(s) in order to be specific. While these papers are widespread in the...

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The emergence of new regional convergence clubs in a Nordic and Baltic perspective : 50th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2010 - First draft

The spatial patterns of changes in economic diversion and convergence have become more blurred in the last decades … traditional way to analyze convergence and disparities based on consolidated national or geographical based groups of regions. The … analyzed. Section 2 provides a survey of regional growth performance with special attention on divergence and convergence based …

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Tourism and regional growth in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Marrocu, Emanuela - 2013

The paper aims at analysing the impact of domestic and international tourism on the economic growth process for 179 regions in ten European countries, which are highly representative of total tourism flows. The econometric analysis is carried out for the period 1999-2009 and it is based on a...

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Local convergences and divergences in the European Union : an analysis of the process of integration

Bourdin, Sébastien - 2013

have seen a spate of studies taking into account the spatial aspect of data in the analysis of convergence from an … paper aims to understand the spatial discontinuities at the origin of an uneven process of integration and convergence in … the EU with the two last enlargements. The study shows that there are local phenomena of both marked convergence, or …

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Do electoral politics and partisan articulations matter for regional economic development? : evidence from Turkey's provinces : Young Scientists Session, 54th European Regional Sci...

Luca, Davide - 2014

The importance of political local coalitions in shaping local governance structures conducive to economic growth has been a subject of research for numerous years, both in rich economies as well as in emerging countries. In spite of such amount of research, little attention has yet been paid to...

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Comparative analysis of the implementation of Triple Helix Theory in Greece and Hungary, its impact on the local entrepreneurship and lessons learned from both cases'

Kalman, Aniko; Balomenou, Chrysanthi; Kolovos, Konstantinos - 2014

In the theoretical part of our paper focused on a) The role of the Knowledge / Universities as a leader of Technological change ? Knowledge transfer dynamics and its influence on Regional Development, b) the Entrepreneurship education: The role of the Entrepreneurial University, c) Knowledge...

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<<New economic cycle in Northern periphery>> : a reading of the first decade

Proulx, Marc-Urbain - 2014

Within the vast northern periphery of Quebec, the annual capital almost doubled over the 2000s. This impulse of a new cycle of growth coincides with a slowdown in job creation. Such effects on the mode of development is part of a multi-dimensional and transitional movement within global...

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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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R&D and regional regeneration : the case of Alba subregion in Romania

Goschin, Zizi; Goschin, Georgiana-Gloria - 2014

Innovation and competitiveness are important factors for promoting economic growth not only nationally, but regionally as well. In Romania, research, development and innovation could be among the factors that are accountable for the increasing regional disparities, as the territorial...

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