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Regional dynamics of economic performance in the EU : to what extent spatial spillovers matter?

Özyurt, Selin; Dées, Stéphane - 2015

This paper investigates the main determinants of economic growth in the European Union from a regional perspective. The analysis is based on a recently available dataset from the European Cluster Observatory covering 253 European regions over the period 2002-2008. In addition to the traditional...

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Does the intensity in R&D generate start-up's growth?

Vendrell-Herrero, Ferran; González-Pernía, José Luís - 2010

The role of R&D investment on firm's performance is not clear from a theoretical perspective. While the effort in R&D activities conducted internally helps firms to develop the ability to identify, assimilate and apply external knowledge successfully (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990), such activities...

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Knowledge, innovation and economic growth : spatial heterogeneity in Europe

Capello, Roberta; Lenzi, Camilla - 2012

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...

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Estimating the long-term economic impacts of the Spanish universities on the national economy

Pastor, José Manuel; Peraita, Carlos; Pérez García, … - 2015

Universities are institutions whose activities have important economic and social impacts on their nearest surroundings …. Most studies of the economic impact of universities analyze exclusively the impacts on the demand side, the effects on … output, income and employment deriving from the universities' activity and their associated spending. This paper focuses on …

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Does globalization affect regional growth? : evidence for NUTS-2 regions in EU-27

Polasek, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2011 - Preprint

We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between 2001 and 2006. The spatial Chow-Lin procedure, a method constructed by the authors, was used to construct on a NUTS-2 level a complete regional data for exports, imports and...

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What makes cities bigger and richer? : new evidence from 1990 - 2000 in the US

González-Val, Rafael - 2011

This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1154 cities). The results show that while a...

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Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe

Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...

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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008

Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011

There is a large literature on the existence of agglomeration economies, as shown in the surveys by Moomaw (1983) or Gerking (1993). The benefits of these economies arise from multiple sources, but some negative externalities might also emerge. Within the hierarchical urban system, cities at...

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Regional inequality and economic growth : interactions of the relationship with the level of economic development and speed of growth

Tafenau, Egle; Paas, Tiiu - 2010 - First draft

The interaction of inequality and growth and the direction of causality in this relationship have been an extensively discussed topic with several questions but without clear answers both in the theoretical and empirical literature. The current paper contributes mainly into the new economic...

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Development, growth and decline in Europe : new patterns of economic convergence and divergence? : 53th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2013 - Preliminary version

The influence of general economic and fiscal policy is in recent years more significant than ever. Tight budgets sets limits on public spending in general and on regional development in particular, both with regard to programs specifically targeted on regional issue, but often also indirect due...

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