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Industrial clusters as source of prospering regions? : economic structure and regional performance 1996-2005

Kubis, Alexander; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2010

within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …

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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey

Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014

"Development" isn't only an economic notion but also it consist of so many meanings such as social, cultural manners, production and consumption ways. During the development process, development units could be growth in vary times and space. At this point what has to be told, which sector and...

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Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments : a panel data analysis for 28 EU member countries

Schmidt, Peter - 2016

This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...

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The EU funding contribution to regional growth and regeneration in Romania : a focus on the North-East Region : 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 26-29...

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Goschin, Zizi; Ileanu, Bogdan - 2014 - Draft

Romania's communist regime used forced industrialization and urbanization policies as a solution for speeding-up the pace of development in the lagging areas, which resulted in reducing regional disparities. However, after 1989 there areas were the first that suffered the hardships of economic...

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Challenges in implementing Croatian regional policy within semi-European context : 52nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association Bratislava, Slovakia, 21st-25th August...

Fröhlich, Zlatan; Đokić, Irena - 2012

Croatia is geographically, historically and culturally a part of the European territory. Regions, as specific units within a national territory, are defined differently on EU level than in Croatia, where counties are far too small to be considered as regions in EU terms. The implementation of...

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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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Europe 2020 and cohesion policy : implications for transition regions : the case of Andalusia

Yépez Muñoz, Francisco - 2012

the European Union by helping less developed regions in their convergence process with more developed ones. Nowadays …

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The persistent effects of placed-based policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2015 - This version: May 2015

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...

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Do public subsidies add to private sector R&D activity? : microeconometric evidence for regional innovation policy in East Germany

Reinkowski, Janina; Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; … - 2010 - First version: January 2010; this version: March 2010, draft

We analyse the effect of public Research and Development (R&D) subsidies on private sector innovativeness for a cross-section of East German firms applying different matching estimations, which are primary based on an estimate of a propensity score. To do so, we use a until now unexplored...

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Challenges for economic growth of regions in the Baltic Sea Region : case study of Latvia

Kalnina-Lukasevica, Zanda - 2011

The Baltic Sea region is one of the most socially, economically and technologically developed regions in the world. The region has a high GDP level, limited social inequality in a global context, leading positions in Doing Business and Global Competitiveness indeces. Meanwhile, the region is...

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