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European agri-environmental policy and local institutions : a case study on French Regional Nature Parks : European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, 19-2...

Décamps, Mélanie - 2010 - Temporary version

Translating the European agro-environmental policy at a local scale implies costs of implementation, especially when a local cohesion is required. In the case of agro-environmental schemes (AES), farmers are supposed to contract individually and voluntarily but a territorial effect is expected....

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A multi-agent simulation approach to sustainability in tourism development : 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International - Barcelona, Spain, 30th Augus...

Maggi, Elena; Stupino, Fabrizio; Fredella, Franco Lorenzo - 2011 - Preliminary version

In the last decades the increasing facility in moving and the simultaneous fall of the transportation costs have strongly increased the tourist flows. As a consequence, different destinations, especially those which are rich of natural resources, unable or unready to sustain huge tourism flows,...

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'Regional identities and competitiveness in a globalised environment : new challenges for Greek regions' : 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International,...

Nikoli, Anastasia; Zigouri, Fotini - 2011

Over the last decades, at a European level, efforts have been made so that regions become capable of sustainable economic growth, with great social cohesion and better distribution of wealth, while at the same time under open market conditions, they are being exposed to external competitiveness....

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Regional determinants of entrepreneurship in a small economy : panel data evidence from Scotland. : the European Regional Science Association Annual Conference 2011

Ross, Andrew - 2011

This paper analyses the spatial variation of new entrepreneurial activity across 32 Scottish regions for the period 1998-2007. Entrepreneurship is widely recognised as a key determinant of economic growth, regional prosperity and sustainable development. Using data from the Value Added Tax (VAT)...

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Creative class as a determinant of economic development : empirical considerations for North Rhine-Westphalian regions based on time series analysis : paper presented on the 51st E...

Hamm, Rüdiger - 2011

Since some years Richard Florida's ideas on the creative class have attracted a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention. One part of his theory says that the "creative class" - people with highly creative and innovative abilities - are the driving force of regional economic...

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Regional dynamics of private pension funds in Romania : 51th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, 30th August - 3rd September 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Constantinescu, Dan - 2011

The number of participants in the private pension funds, as well as the volume of their contribution, differs significant in each development region. It goes without saying that the territorial distribution of the indicators related to pension funds are influenced, on the one hand, by the offer...

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Spatial mobility and location choices of highly skilled workers : European Regional Science Association Conference, August-September, 2011, Barcelona

Miguélez, Ernest; Moreno, Rosina - 2011 - Very preliminary version, First draft: February 2010, This draft: March 2011

The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the determinants of geographical mobility and location choices of skilled individuals across the European regions. The most talented workers, e.g. inventors, move for a number of reasons, contributing in this manner to the geographical diffusion...

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Types of competitiveness of Hungarian regions : agglomeration economies and endogenous regional development : paper prepared for the conference on "New Challenges for European Regi...

Lengyel, Imre - 2011 - First (preliminary) draft!

Nowadays, more and more scholars of regional science are interested in the role of agglomeration economies in the knowledge-based economy. This issue can be dealt with from different points of view: the competitive type of functional or nodal regions and one has to examine the factors...

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What about regions in regional science? : an exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy

Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Cravo, Túlio - 2013

in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs … within countries at finer scales (NUTS3 level) rather than between EU countries. Furthermore, these findings hold when we …

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Spatial diffusion of electric vehicles in the German metropolitan region of Stuttgart : ERSA Congress 2011, New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalised Worl...

Linder, Susanne; Wirges, Johannes - 2011

At the moment, interest in electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing worldwide, mainly due to concerns about climate change and rising prices of fossil fuels. EVs still have some significant drawbacks compared to gasoline-powered cars. However, a small part of the population is expected to adopt...

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