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Territorial Cooperation and socio-economic development in the Old EU , New EU and Non EU

Topaloglou, Lefteris; Cupcea, Victor; Kallioras, Dimitris; … - 2012

Territorial cooperation, taken as collaboration "beyond national boundaries", among administrative bodies and/or political actors, generally offers the ground for functional cooperation towards problem-solving and challenge-tackling, along with the exploitation of the local and regional...

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Marshall or Jacobs? Answers to an unsuitable question from an interaction model

Lehmann, Robert; Kluge, Jan - 2012

This paper investigates whether localization economies as brought forward by Marshall (1890) or urbanization economies as mentioned by Jacobs (1970) are more decisive for regional gross value added per capita. Our novel approach is to explicitly allow for interdependencies between these two...

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Regional development and creativity

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2012

The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...

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Product Heterogeneity, Intangible Barriers & Distance Decay: The effect of multiple dimensions of distance on trade across different product categories

Lankhuizen, Maureen; de Graaff, Thomas; De Groot, Henri - 2012

This paper empirically examines the heterogeneity in the effects of multiple dimensions of distance on trade across detailed product groups. Using finite mixture modelling on bilateral trade data at the 3-digit SITC level, we endogenously group product categories into an, a priori unknown,...

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International and Cross Border Entrepreneurship: The Case of Greece and Bulgaria

Katsikis, Ioannis; Fragidis, Garyfallos; Paschaloudis, … - 2012

on understanding the actual reasons is only minimal. In this paper, we map the entrepreneurial and investment activities …

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Cross Border Collaboration: A Network Analysis of the Bilateral Collaborative Projects in the Case of Greece and Bulgaria

Katsikis, Ioannis; Fragidis, Garyfallos; Paschaloudis, … - 2012

Although neighboring countries and both members of the EU, Greece and Bulgaria have very different social and economic environments in which entrepreneurial activities take place. At the same time, collaborative activities and research on economic and social cohesion and development between the...

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Quality of investment environment. Evidence from Romania

Burcea, Felix-Constantin - 2012

The aim of the present paper is to describe the investment environment in Romania, to highlight the stringent problems … that need to be solved and also to propose solutions for a better investment environment. In the actual economic context … country competitiveness and, therefore, the quality of the investment environment. I applied the methodology used in the …

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Geoadditive models for regional count data: an application to industrial location

Basile, Roberto; Benfratello, Luigi; Castellani, Davide - 2012

We propose a geoadditive negative binomial model (Geo-NB-GAM) for regional count data which allows us to simultaneously address some important methodological issues, such as spatial clustering, nonlinearities and overdispersion. We apply this model to study location determinants of inward...

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The competitiveness of EU regions

Kourilova, Jana; Wokoun, Rene; Damborsky, Milan; … - 2012

The competitiveness of EU regions This paper results from the project financed by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ÈR). The project was carried out by the research team consisting of both The Centre of Regional and Administrative Studies and The Regional Studies Department's members...

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Allocation of European structural funds and strategic interactions: is there a yardstick competition between regions in the public aid for development?

Vedrine, Lionel - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationships between the degree of decentralization of public policy and the emergence of horizontal strategic interactions. We analyze the structural funds allocation process in determining how the structure of governance of cohesion policy a ects the development of...

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