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A spatial interpretation of the persistency of China's provincial inequality
Yu, Xiaofan - 2011
China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra-provincial income inequality have been increasing and their respective contribution to the total income inequality remains relatively stable. Based on a new set of prefectural database...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364875
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Development gaps in the Sud Muntenia region of Romania
Iordan, Marioara; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Ghizdeanu, Ion; … - 2013
Development gaps are a common feature throughout the regions of the European Union, and Romania is no exception. Despite all the political and financial efforts, the convergence process is lengthy and complex, and the gaps with the deepest economic and social roots are the most difficult to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566083
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The influence of academic institutions on regional clusters using the ICT cluster of Waterloo, Ontario as an example
Bechtloff, Katharina - 2012
The paper aims to examine the role of academic institutions in the development of the ICT cluster of the Waterloo … universities does not automatically result in the development of an ICT cluster. In the region of Waterloo three academic … Learning - shape and stimulate the regional ICT cluster, which now includes up to 700 stakeholders from global market leaders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011512744
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Spinoffs and M&A as drivers of spatial clustering : the evolution of the Dutch banking sector in the Amsterdam region in the period 1850-1993
Boschma, Ron; Wenting, Rik - 2010
explain why the Dutch banking cluster clustered in the Amsterdam region. This analysis is based on an unique database of all … for why Amsterdam is the leading banking cluster of the Netherlands. Our analyses demonstrate, among other things, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573190
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Worker mobility and the purchase of low CO2 emission vehicles in France : a datamining approach
Boroumand, Raphaël Homayoun; Goutte, Stéphane; … - In: European journal of comparative economics 16 (2019) 2, pp. 171-205
This paper seeks to pattern a non-driven geographical classification of French departmental territorial units based on both mobility behavior and passenger car fleet composition. With no mathematical regression analysis but applying datamining methodology to behavior, consumption and geography...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259806
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On the predictability of knowledge formation : the tortuous link between regional specialisation and development
Bretschger, Lucas - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001411748
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A Spatial Interpretation of the Persistency of China's Provincial Inequality
Yu, Xiaofan - 2011
China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra-provincial income inequality have been increasing and their respective contribution to the total income inequality remains relatively stable. Based on a new set of prefectural database...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119152
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Is China Heading Towards Multi-Polarization?
Yu, Xiaofan - 2011
Based on two unique and most recent databases of prefectural household income and per capita GDP, this paper investigates the problem of inequality and polarization in China. By using the General Entropy Measure with different regional classification, the results show that either on more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119159
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On the predictability of knowledge formation : the tortuous link between regional specialisation, trade and development
Bretschger, Lucas - 1999
The paper examines the relation between industrial mix and regional productivity growth. For this purpose, a dynamic model of the open economy with differentiated sectoral knowledge formation and incomplete interregional knowledge diffusion is constructed. The theoretical framework is first used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484505
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The geography of French agricultural co-operatives : an explanatory spatial data analysis
Chantelot, Sébastien; Filippi, Maryline; Pérès, … - 2010 - Very first draft
Agricultural cooperatives represent nearly 75% of all farmers in France. They have become major actors in the development of rural spaces. Over the past 30 years, French cooperatives have steadily modified their organizational structures in response to changes in the economic environment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574931