This empirical paper tests for trade-facilitated spillovers in the convergence of energy productivity across 16 …

productivity differences among regions within a regression framework in general and the impact of their spillovers on regional … total factor productivity in particular. The focus is laid on interregional spillovers between the Western and Eastern EU … empirical studies in the sense that once the human capital is accounted for, the significance and magnitude of spillovers from …

Entrepreneurship is a local and dynamic phenomenon. We jointly investigate spatial spillovers and time persistence of … systematically search for the most suitable spatial weighting matrices. We find substantial spatial spillovers as well as time …