regions

The authors undertake a direct evaluation of a fiscal incentive policy in Brazil, the Fundos Constitucionais de Financiamento (Constitutional Funds). Findings indicate that the pull of firm headquarters is very strong relative to the constitutional funds for vertically integrated firms, but that, with nonparametric controls for time invariant spatial heterogeneity, the funds provide significant incentives for firms in many of the targeted industries.

This paper argues that the rate of regional growth of new nanotech knowledge is positively affected by the existing regional stocks of recorded knowledge, and by tacit knowledge flows between institutions of different organizational types.

This report outlines a process for collecting data on key measures of innovation that can then be used to drive regional economic development policies and programs.

The authors investigate regional differences in the level and the development of regional new business formation activity. Steering innovation and creating an entrepreneurial atmosphere could be an appropriate starting point for policy measures that try to promote start-ups.

This paper investigates the efficiency of the matching process between job seekers and vacancy posting firms in West-Germany, using variation across labor market regions and across time.

This study examines the residential choice of couples in which both spouses have higher education degree. The aim of this study is to find out where these couples live. In addition, families with different educational backgrounds are compared. The comparison might tell about the reasons of a family’s residential choice. Micro level data is used in empirical analysis.

This report is a concise summary of the presentations, discussions and main conclusions of the first MLP workshop on regional profiles and growth poles. The workshop was attended by some 50 practitioners and officials representing regional authorities, specialised regional agencies, experts as well as representatives of the European Commission.

This paper analyses the potential role of the municipal authorities of Vienna in supporting and shaping the metropolitan innovation system. Based on a survey of innovation networks in the Vienna urban region, basic structural features of these networks - types of partners, their location and the kind of relations between them - are presented. From these results, conclusions concerning the design of urban innovation policy - its potential scope and effectiveness, reasonable priorities and inevitable limits - are drawn.

The goal of the study is to determine whether commonly used inequality measures (Gini, coefficient of variation, etc.) produce meaningful estimates when applied to small countries, thus making it possible to compare the results of analysis obtained for such countries with those obtained elsewhere.

This paper examines the role of institutional factors in the economic growth of Mexican regions. Following on from the documents presented at the ERSA Annual Conferences of 2003-2004, it contains an analysis of two of these regions and seeks to illustrate the characteristics and evolution of their institutional frameworks as well as their relationship with economic growth.