The achievement of the New Economic Geography is that a way for formal declaration as a result of agglomeration economies of scale, transportation and mobile workforce is offered. Basic effects are always determined by centrifugal and centripetal forces. A finding of the basic model is that...

When comparing the New Economy and the time before the Great Depression there are two obvious analogies. In the 1920s as in the 1990s there was an investment boom triggered through the use of new technologies and rapid technological development. In the 1920s, these were the electricity and the...

Beim Vergleich der New Economy und der Zeit vor der Großen Depression sind zwei Analogien ersichtlich. In den 1920ern wie in den 1990ern wurde durch die Verwendung neuer Schlüsseltechnologien und rasante technische Entwicklung ein Investitionsboom ausgelöst. In den 1920ern waren dies die...

Following the relatedness literature, we explore to what extent related industries influenced the regional emergence of the PV-industry. In addition, we shed light on factors explaining selective processes of clustering. We particularly argue that generic resources and resources of related...