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Chapter 4. Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Temple, … - 2014

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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Regional convergence and R&D investment : applied investigation in Portugal : ERSA 55th Congress : World renaissance: changing roles for people and places : Lisbon, Portugal 25-28 August 2015

Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés; Guerreiro, António - 2015

R&D investments are seen has having an enormous potential impact on the competitive position of regions and perhaps on regional convergence (or divergence) too. The aim of the paper is to study both the localization of R&D investments and regional income distribution among the NUTs 3 regions of...

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The regional development policy of Romania in the post-accession period

Antonescu, Daniela - 2013

strategy for the future programming period, from the perspective of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The study contains certain …

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How does a policymaker rank regional income distributions across years? : a study on the evolution of Greek regional per capita income

Liontakis, Angelos - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 2/40, pp. 1-12

This study examines the evolution of the regional per capita income from the perspective of a policymaker at the national level. To do that, it utilizes stochastic dominance analysis by including a utility function that expresses the "regional inequalities aversion" level of the policymaker. In...

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Agglomeration in Europe in the Context of Socio-Ecological Transition

Styczynska, Izabela; Zaman, Constantin - 2013

-2010 period. The aim of the study is twofold: to provide descriptive evidence of the agglomeration distribution in Europe and its … particular attention paid to the socio-ecological transformation occurring in Europe. The study concludes that: the changes in … influence on agglomeration but only in Western Europe …

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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 regional economic growth depend on proximity to urban centres?

Ahrend, Rudiger; Schumann, Abel - 2014

This paper analyses the spatial patterns of regional economic growth in Europe over the 1995 to 2010 period. It finds …

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Trust and innovation activity in European regions : a geographic instrumental variables approach

Schild, Christopher-Johannes - 2012

Capital ; Trust ; Innovation ; Regional Economics ; Europe …

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Determinants of convergence and disparities in Europe : innovation, entrepreneurship and the processes of clustering : 52th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2012 - Preliminary version

Innovation and entrepreneurship are key factors in current regional development initiatives, derived from the concepts of new economic growth theory. The aim of this paper is to combine an assessment of innovative and entrepreneurial performance with the spatial distribution and functional...

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Distribution dynamics of regional GDP per employee in unified Germany

Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo; Ketterer, Florian; … - 2011 - This version: September 2011

We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has been achieved in Germany since unification. To this end, we model the distribution of GDP per employee across German districts using two-component normal mixtures. While in the first year after unification, the two...

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