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Urban Economic Growth in Europe Between 2001 and 2008 – Gravitation or Dispersion?

Neumann, Uwe; Budde, Rüdiger; Ehlert, Christoph - 2012

This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …

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Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches

Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008

This paper analyses the growth e®ects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using...

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Human capital and regional growth in Switzerland

Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2010

This paper develops a regional production function model for Swiss cantons that incorporates human capital together with spatial effects. Within a spatial panel framework we find that controlling for time effects the spatial spillover effect becomes insignificant. Our results are sensitive with...

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Urban Growth in Germany – The Impact of Localization and Urbanization Economies

Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009

Untersuchung für die Städte in Deutschland deuten auf eine Uförmige Beziehung zwischen Spezialisierung und Stadtwachstum hin …

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Reimagining India's urban future: A framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India

Tewar, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015

India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...

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Spatial dependence of regional unemployment in the European Union

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

spatial econometric methods. The results point to a significant spatial dependence among regional labour markets in Europe … suggest that different forms of spatial interaction with varying scope affect the evolution of regional unemployment in Europe. … Mobilität der Arbeitskräfte führen zu anhaltenden Unterschieden zwischen den regionalen Arbeitslosenquoten in Europa. Bisherige …

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Market Access and Regional Disparities: New Economic Geography in Europe

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2004

New Economic Geography (NEG) has reached a theoretical consolidation while related empirical tests are still scarce. The present paper aims at providing some evidence on the validity of forces emphasised by NEG. The analysis starts from the nominal wage equation derived from the Krugman...

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Conditional beta- and sigma-convergence in space: A maximum likelihood approach

Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2007

Empirical work on regional growth under spatial spillovers uses two workhorse models: the spatial Solow model and Verdoorn's model. This paper contrasts these two views on regional growth processes and demonstrates that in a spatial setting the speed of convergence is heterogenous in both...

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Earthquakes and economic growth

Fisker, Peter Simonsen - 2012

This study explores the economic consequences of earthquakes. In particular, it is investigated how exposure to earthquakes affects economic growth both across and within countries. The key result of the empirical analysis is that while there are no observable effects at the country level,...

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Which is the Right Dose of EU Cohesion Policy for Economic Growth?

Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008

The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European regions mainly relies on functional form assumptions. However, it is ex ante not clear which functional form is appropriate with regard to the relationship between structural funds...

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