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If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...
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Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...
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The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique … to survey the recent development of municipal finance: Britain, Germany, Poland and Switzerland. This paper firstly …
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economic growth in Poland over the period Q2, 1993 – Q2, 2003. …
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In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this …, and people in cities were more educated than people in villages regardless of their religion. The case of interwar Poland …
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The past decade has witnessed an increase in populist movements across the world. Some of those movements have gained … looking at the case of Poland which according to several recent studies has experienced the highest level of populist … rhetorics in recent years. Indeed, when the new populist government took power, between 2015-2019, Poland experienced a major …
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. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5 percent for Poland and …
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I model the ocean as an array of lines set within a two-dimensional frame, and show how the Exclusive Economic Zone emerged as an equilibrium in customary international law. I find that custom codifies the efficient Nash equilibrium of enclosure for nearshore fisheries. For highly migratory and...
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This paper examines the evolution of public policies before the scheduled political elections based on the government responses to the Covid pandemic. The results of an event study in a sample of countries that experienced political elections during the first year of the pandemic suggest that...
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The global success of online search engines and social media is due to their free access and high level of quality. However, these features are supported by a business model that exploits personal user data to provide targeted advertising services to third parties. Does this business model...
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