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This paper explores the causes of industrial agglomeration in China using the provincial panel data during 1987-2001, focusing on the effects of economic opening. The determinants of industrial agglomeration are tested by controlling three types of factors, those of economic policies, economic geography and new economic geography, respectively.

The authors analyze the validity of five performance measures of international logistics outsourcing partnerships, using information from both partners. Each partners assessment of performance is captured by a single construct, which underlies four of the measures.

The authors investigate whether the aggregation of region-specific forecasts improves upon the direct forecasting of Canadian GDP growth. The empirical results show that Canadian GDP growth forecasts can be improved by indirectly forecasting the GDP growth of the Canadian economic regions using a multivariate approach.

The paper analyses the impact of macro-level social capital on economic development in 34 European countries. The authors use principal component analysis to group initially selected social determinants of economic development into three components (human and social capital, income equality, and redistribution), which altogether described 64.4 percent of the variation of the initial variables.

The authors develop a model of optimal pattern of economic development that is first rooted in physical capital accumulation and then in technical progress. They study an economy where capital accumulation and innovative activity take place within a two sector model.

The authors use U.S. county data (3,058 observations) and 41 conditioning variables to study growth and convergence. Using OLS and 3SLS-IV the authors report on the full sample and metro, non-metro, and 5 regional samples.

The authors develop a simple test to assess whether horizontal spillover effects from multinational to domestic firms are endogenous to the market structure generated by the entry of the same multinationals.

The authors analyse the diffusion and adoption of paper making machinery in the Indonesian pulp and paper industry, from 1923 through 2000. The two main questions in this paper are: (1) What patterns of technology diffusion can be discerned in the Indonesian paper manufacturing sector; and (2) What role have industrial policies played in the diffusion of technology and the expansion of the paper industry.

The paper concludes that failure rates are rather high for strategic technology alliances, but this seems not to deter firms to establish new strategic technology alliances even with the same parterning firm.

There is a significant controversy among academics and policy-makers about whether policies matter for economic growth, according to the authors. In a cross-section of 91 countries, policy volatility emerges as a key determinant of macroeconomic performance.