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Regional infrastructure and convergence : growth implications in a spatial framework

Del Bo, Chiara; Florio, Massimo; Manzi, Giancarlo - 2009 - This Version: Novembre 24th 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705916

Space and growth

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342567

Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe

Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506442

Agglomeration, Spatial Interaction and Convergence in the EU

Bräuninger, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2005

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295468

Age Structure and Regional Income Growth

Brunow, Stephan; Hirte, Georg - 2005

A spatial econometrics cross-section analysis of the NUTS2 regions of the EU15 is carried out to examine whether the age structure of the regional population or differences in the regional age pattern affect growth of regional per capita income. We apply two parsimonious models of the age...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296771

What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography

Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003

This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301178

Regional convergence and R&D investment : applied investigation in Portugal : ERSA 55th Congress : World renaissance: changing roles for people and places : Lisbon, Portugal 25-28...

Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés; Guerreiro, António - 2015

regional convergence (or divergence) too. The aim of the paper is to study both the localization of R&D investments and … the presence of spatial correlation. Furthermore, we evaluate convergence or divergence in income growth and if it is … per capita GDP and per capita R&D investment. It follows the convergence analysis and conclusions. To study the spatial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481737

The impact of regional absorptive capacity on spatial knowledge spillovers

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008

We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but only part of it is efficiently adopted in the economy; the share of efficiently adopted technology depends on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377391

Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? : an empirical analysis for Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477128

Growth spillovers in the MENA region

Baysoy, Merve Aksoylar; Altuğ, Sumru - 2019

In this paper, we examine the role of spillovers in economic growth for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by accounting for spatial effects. Such spatial effects in growth for the MENA countries may arise on the basis of geography, bilateral trade or institutional similarities. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038256

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