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Development of trade blocs in an era of globalization : proximity still matters

Kohl, Tristan; Brouwer, Aleid E. - 2011 - Version: 19 May 2011, first preliminary draft

influenced by geographical and political factors; after all, proximity matters. To explain how mechanism of globalization changed … trade patterns over the last half century and how - in the end - proximity is one of the most explanatory variables - we … cultural factors do contribute to the (importance of) proximity in trade partners. In addition we also apply GIS to analyze …

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Entrepreneurship in the EU: to wish and not to be

Grilo, Isabel; Irigoyen, Jesus Maria - 2005

It is now widely acknowledged that the entrepreneurial capacity in an economy is a key determinant of economic growth and productivity improvements. This paper uses survey data from the 15 EU Member States and the US to establish the effect of demographic and other variables on latent and actual...

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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - 2008

The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it", "taking steps for starting up", "having a young business", "having an older business" and "no longer being an...

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Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration

Geppert, Kurt; Happich, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2005

increase disparities within the EU member states. Obviously, the productive advantages of spatial proximity do not vanish in …

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Heterogeneity within communities : a stochastic model with tenure choice

Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - 2005

Standard explanations for the income heterogeneity within neighborhoods rely on differences of preferences across households and heterogeneity of the housing stock. We propose an alternative and complementary explanation. We construct a stochastic equilibrium sorting model where (1) income is...

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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - 2005

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...

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Patents and the Technological Performance of District Firms Evidence for the Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy

Santarelli, Enrico - 2004

This paper investigates some crucial aspects of the recent development of industrial districts in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, where this type of spatial agglomeration of industrial firms has flourished since the period immediately after the Second World War. In particular, it is aimed at...

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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...

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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...

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