Over the past two decades, support for Eurosceptic parties has climbed from fringe to nearly one-third of voters. Promising renewed prosperity through less European integration, these parties imply Euroscepticism is a 'free lunch.' Drawing on an original panel of 1,166 European NUTS-3 regions...

Regionale Innovationssysteme (RIS) beschreiben das Zusammenwirken von Unternehmen, dem Hochschulsystem und staatlichen Akteuren, wobei die Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Region im Fokus steht. Dabei ist die Weitergabe innovativen Wissens aus dem Bereich von Forschung und...

Background Health regions are associations of a wide variety of persons involved at regional level who are connected to the health sector. Along with different professions, these players represent a wide range of interests. Regional Health Network Managers manage the health regions in order to...

Although much research on migration has been carried out over the years, the focus of the attention has been mostly on immigration and its effects on the host countries and the economic drivers for choosing migration. Italian emigration abroad in post-World War II (1946-73) and in the 21st...

Different business environments may have differential impacts. The improvement in the institutional environment and increased certainty about the future greatly impact entrepreneurial activity and business results. The reform of inspection and regulatory enforcement activities aims at improving...

Innovation and investment are critical to economic growth. In this article, we address the complex task of evaluating the capacity of regional innovation to increase investment and generate spillovers in regions of the European Union (EU) from both spatial and temporal perspectives. Using panel...

Diese Studie untersucht, von welchen Einflussgrößen die Nachfrage nach Festnetzanschlüssen in Deutschland abhängt und welche Bestimmungsfaktoren sich für eine räumlich disaggregiert Modellierung eignen. Es sind verschiedene Themenkomplexe, die in diesem Kontext eine Rolle spielen. Dazu...

How do regional productivity shocks or transportation infrastructure improvements affect aggregate welfare? In a general class of spatial equilibrium models, we provide a formula for aggregate welfare changes, decomposed into terms associated with (i) technology (Fogel 1964, Hulten 1978), (ii)...

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

We show that judicial independence can reduce local protectionism and foster cross-regional economic integration. We exploit a judicial independence reform in China with staggered roll-out since 2014. The reform removed local governments’ control over local courts’ financial and personnel...

This paper quantifies the value of US highways. We develop a multisector general equilibrium model with many locations in the United States (i.e., counties) and many countries. In the model, producers choose shipping routes subject to domestic and international trade costs, endogenous...

Banking-system shutdowns during contractions scar economies. Four times in the last forty years, governors suspended payments from state-insured depository institutions. Suspensions of payments in Nebraska (1983), Ohio (1985), and Maryland (1985), which were short and occurred during expansions,...

Ausgehend von der Notwendigkeit, im Interesse einer wirkungsvollen Raumplanung möglichst aktuelle Abgrenzungen der Planungsräume zu gewährleisten, wird Kritik an der derzeitigen Abgrenzung dreier Raumkategorien der bayerischen Raumordnung, Landes- und Regionalplanung geäußert:...

Chapter 6 from the forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2022 looks at human capital in greater detail, based on the latest human capital estimates from the Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR) project. In the chapter, which is repeated here, the growth of human capital and several of its constituent...

We use social network data from Facebook to show that institutional investors are more likely to invest in firms from regions to which they have stronger social ties. This effect of social proximity on investment behavior is distinct from the effect of geographic proximity. Social connections...

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

Chapter 6 from the forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2022 looks at human capital in greater detail, based on the latest human capital estimates from the Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR) project. In the chapter, which is repeated here, the growth of human capital and several of its constituent...

Chapter 6 from the forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2022 looks at human capital in greater detail, based on the latest human capital estimates from the Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR) project. In the chapter, which is repeated here, the growth of human capital and several of its constituent...

We describe and compare the development trajectories of two German regions, South Saxony and Mecklenburg, with a special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation that results in a persistent culture of innovative...

In recent years, many states and some local governments implemented or expanded their own supplemental Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs). The expansion of state EITCs may have stemmed in large part from wanting to provide a more generous program than the federal program, because state EITCs...

Ausgehend von der Notwendigkeit, im Interesse einer wirkungsvollen Raumplanung möglichst aktuelle Abgrenzungen der Planungsräume zu gewährleisten, wird Kritik an der derzeitigen Abgrenzung dreier Raumkategorien der bayerischen Raumordnung, Landes- und Regionalplanung geäußert:...