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Productivity-enhancing manufacturing clusters: Evidence from Vietnam

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2014

In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data … and distinguishing between urbanization and localization economies, we find strong evidence for productivity spillovers … from clustering. The effects of these spillovers are found to be particularly large for foreign-owned firms. Our results …

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The Impact of Regional Economic Conditions on the Efficiency of Savings Banks in the Light of Demographic Change

Conrad, Alexander; Neuberger, Doris; Gamarra, Lucinda Trigo - In: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 47 (2014) 4, pp. 533-570

This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on the technical and revenue efficiency of German savings banks. It employs a two-step approach, using, first, data envelopment analysis to calculate efficiency and, second, multivariate regressions to examine the influence of regional...

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An Assessment of the Access by Romanian SMEs to Structural Funds

Hunya, Gabor - 2011

Romanian SMEs can directly benefit from the Sectoral Operational Programme 'Increase of Economic Competitiveness' (SOP IEC) and some parts of the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) in the period 2007 2013. Research commissioned by the Directorate General for Regional Policy of the European...

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Agglomeration and innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - 2015

This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities....

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Silicon mountains, silicon molehills: Geographic concentration and convergence of internet industries in the US

Kolko, Jed - 2001

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Racial Heterogeneity in the U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence

Kim, Minki; Lee, Munseob - 2023

Structural transformation and regional convergence in U.S. income have been long-standing trends. Caselli and Coleman (2001) discovered that 60% of regional convergence between the U.S. South and North from 1940 to 1990 is due to structural transformation. Our replication confirms these robust...

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Job accessibility and spatial equity: A city of Cape Town case study

van der Merwe, Jacomien; de Jong, Tom - 2023

Addressing unemployment and income inequalities in transport and land-use policies is important, particularly in South Africa, which is currently experiencing one of the highest unemployment rates and income inequality in the world. This research investigates the horizontal (geographical...

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Nighttime lights and wealth in very small areas

Määttä, Ilari; Ferreira, Thomas; Leßmann, Christian - In: Review of Regional Research 42 (2021) 2, pp. 161-190

Nighttime lights observed from satellites are a widely accepted proxy measure for economic development. This is mainly based on cross-country evidence that finds strong correlations between lights and Gross Domestic Product. Yet, the evidence on the correlations at local levels is scarce, and it...

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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities

Li, Jun - 2013

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...

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The creative class, bohemians and local labor market performance: a micro-data panel study for Germany 1975-2004

Möller, Joachim; Tubadji, Annie - 2008

The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. We apply two different es-timation methods, a panel VAR for the complete data set and a dynamic system ap-proach based on GMM for a modified data set...

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