While there is ample evidence on the linkage between public debt and economic growth for national economies, far fewer investigations have been carried out at the subnational level. In this paper, we therefore study the long- and short-term relationship between regional public debt intensities...

In this paper, we study the long- and short-run relationship between regional public debt and economic performance for a sample of German federal states over the period of four decades (1970-2010). By choosing a sample of regional entities with comparable institutional settings, we complement...

Seit knapp einem Jahr regiert die Rot-Grüne Minderheitsregierung in Nordrhein-Westfalen. In der Haushalts- und Finanzpolitik war der Nachtragshaushalt 2010, den der Verfassungsgerichtshof des Landes in seinem Urteil vom 21.12.2010 als verfassungswidrig beurteilt hat, als Fehlstart zu bewerten....

Die Nettokreditaufnahme des Landes NRW ist laut Haushaltsabschluss 2011 im vergangenen Jahr von etwa 5,0 Mrd. € im Haushaltsjahr 2010 auf rund 3,2 Mrd. € gesunken. Sie lag damit deutlich unter den 4,8 Mrd. €, die von der Landesregierung in der ursprünglichen Haushaltsplanung veranschlagt...

Since the introduction of its “open door†policy in the late 1970s, China has been attracting a growing share of FDI inflows and its international trade integration has advanced considerably. In this study, we take a closer look at the regional growth impact of the Chinese...

We analyse the determinants of network formation in German’s biotechnology sector combining elements from social network analysis (SNA) and a regression framework for count data. For the latter we adopt a regional innovation system perspective, we estimate the number of total and...

This article applies the novel concept of global panel cointegration to analyze the role played by trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) activity in driving regional total factor productivity (TFP). Using West German state-level data for the period 1976–2008, the approach allows us to...

This paper analyses the major determinants of long- and short-run labour productivity evolution for Chinese provinces between 1978 and 2010. The role played by openness to trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) constitutes the main focus of this analysis. From a methodological perspective,...

The main purpose of this Handbook is to provide overviews and assessments of the state-of-the-art regarding research methods, approaches and applications central to economic geography. The chapters are written by distinguished researchers from a variety of scholarly traditions and with a...