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The determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across European regions : paper prepared for the ERSA 2013 Congress, Palermo, 27-21 August

Castellani, Davide; Meliciani, Valentina; Mirra, L. - 2013

The paper accounts for the determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across the EU-27 regions. Together with the traditional variables considered in the literature (market size, market quality, agglomeration economies, labour cost, technology, human capital), we focus...

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Regional FDI spillovers and local suppliers : disentangling the effects of foreign ownership, technology gap and absorptive capacity

Jordaan, Jacob A. - 2012

In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver of regional growth, by acting as a source of new knowledge and technologies to local suppliers in a host economy. For the analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained...

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Business location: strategic factor for the development of regions? : an approach on industrial location policy of Bahia

Spinola, Noelio Dantaslé; Spinola, Carolina de Andrade; … - 2015

In this paper we present a critical analysis of industrial location policy of the state of Bahia, in the period covered in between 1960s and 2000s, from the perspective of spatial economy. The paper reviews the formulation of the theory of location, through the contributions of its principal...

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Evaluation of the structure of the services sector in Brazil : a regional approach

Cardoso, Verônica Lazarini; Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro - 2014

The accelerated growth of the service sector is one of the characteristics of the actual pattern of global growth. In Brazil, it is possible to point to a move towards a 'service economy' following the global standard. However, it cannot say that Brazil is regionally services intensive, ie, the...

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The regional distribution of knowledge-intensive services in Europe : a spatial approach

Camacho Ballesta, José A.; Rodríguez Molina, Mercedes; … - 2010

There is a rich debate in the innovation literature about to what extent innovation has become an international (or globalised) phenomenon, or, on the contrary, it maintains its local/regional character. As Koschatzky (2001) notes, given the fact that knowledge is commonly tied to personal...

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Territorial competitiveness in a globalised economy : regional efficiency of the Mexican service sector

Trejo Nieto, Alejandra Berenice - 2010

It is argued that the competitive capacities from the regional and local point of view can be constructed, that in fact are tied to territorial policies and to the development of a territorial culture that integrates the local system of companies. Moreover a process of such nature can contribute...

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Effects of cultural diversity on economic performance in Russian regions

Limonov, Leonid Ė.; Nesena, Marina - 2015

its role in the creation of new knowledge suggest that productivity of knowledge creation in a region with a homogeneous …

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Economic efficiency of the Mexican metropolitan regions between 1998 and 2008 : European Regional Science Association, 21-25th August 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia

Nieto Trejo, Alejandra - 2012

to expand economically and improve the quality of life for the population. Yet, productivity, profits and efficiency are … specificities and differences among metropolis is called for. However there has been a relatively scarce recording of productivity …

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Unbalanced regional impact of the crisis in Spain : an explorative analysis through structural changes, sectorial specialization and productivity : ERSA Congress 2014

Cuadrado Roura, Juan R.; Maroto Sánchez, Andrés - 2014

.2%, high job creation and a sharp increase in public and private spending. However, this masked low productivity, a growing … of within regional productivity. In doing so, the paper firstly presents a sythetic description of the features that have …

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The impact of structural and macroeconomic factors on regional productivity

D'Costa, Sabine; Garcilazo, Enrique; Oliveira-Martins, … - 2012

might vary across regions depending on their productivity gap with the most productive region in their country. Our … hypothesis is that regional productivity growth is positively related to the productivity growth of the leading region within the … country and positively related to the productivity gap with the region that has the highest level of productivity in the …

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