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The authors argue in this paper that unless China begins to tackle more systematically the serious problems that have emerged in the finances of its various levels of sub-national government the problems to which the present unsatisfactory system give rise will over time increasingly distort resource allocation, increase distributional tensions, and slow down the impressive recent growth of the Chinese economy.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the decentralization processes in two fast growing emerging companies, namely, China and India, with an eye toward examining the effect of fiscal decentralization in these two countries on their respective records of economic growth.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the decentralization processes in two fast growing emerging companies, namely, China and India, with an eye toward examining the effect of fiscal decentralization in these two countries on their respective records of economic growth.

According to the authors, OPEC’s stated mission is to promote the economic development and growth of its member states while minimizing volatility in the oil markets. But after a promising beginning many member states’ economies have declined rather than prospered—a clear indication of OPEC’s failure to meet their development goals. Thus, the authors ask if a
resource cartel can achieve the joint goals of development and resource market stability.

The authors explore whether in Europe public knowledge is underutilised by firms, and investigate the quantitative importance of various knowledge transmission channels.

The authors discuss various options to include human capital, R&D, and product market competition in a macroeconomic framework. They also study how policy can affect the decisions to build human capital or to perform research, and how competition policy impacts on macroeconomic outcomes.

This paper tracks the growth and decline of information and communications technology (ICT) industries that were synonymous with the so-called new economy boom of the late-1990s and its subsequent bust period in the early 2000s. The analysis focuses on the question of whether the ICT bust has been accompanied by a structural shift illustrated by less firm turnover. It shows that to date there is little evidence of a structural shift. Entry rates of new establishments within the ICT sector were above those of other sectors within the economy during both the ICT boom and bust.

The question to be investigated in the paper is how to characterize urban networks, taking both place-bound activities and (quality of) transport networks into account. The paper illustrates different components of the urban network for the northern part of the Randstad Holland conurbation (the greater Amsterdam area) by means of different accessibility measures.

This paper focusses on the role of relocation in the balancing equation of spatial economic dynamics: Total Change(zone i) = New firms(i)-Closures(i)+ Growth(i)-Decline(i)+ Inmoves(i)-Outmoves(i). The data are from the longitudinal business register of the province of Gelderland, in the east of the Netherlands, covering the period 1988-2002.

This paper aims to develop a new spatial economic model for analyzing information flow between head and branch offices. This paper sets out how to decide the location of the head office and some branch offices, and the allocation of all employees and computers to head and branch offices.