KBW 39: As part of their SME Report Thuringia, the authors note that Thuringia's gross domestic product has developed less favorably than GDP...

The overall scientific objective of this project was to identify and explain in a crosscountry analysis the impact of deepening and widening...

The authors examine the extent to which the Central and Eastern European countries Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary have...

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills...

Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital age,...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 12

Based on evidence from national data, Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (AER 2012) suggest that growth of night lights can proxy reliably for...

KBW 6: This study analyzes to what extent the rising share of foreign value added in exports and various factors of non-price competitiveness...

KBW 12: The trend decline of productivity growth in Germany is not due to a single cause but is the result of the interplay of multiple...

Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital age,...

The present paper employs spatial econometrics techniques to discriminate empirically between various economically plausible spatial patterns...

Numerous empirical studies of national and regional economic growth and convergence undertaken in the past one and a half decades have...

This paper argues for an ambitious but realistic approach to defining the future role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is the...

This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct investments (FDI) in the US....

Die wirtschaftliche Situation in Ost- und Westdeutschland unterscheidet sich auch über zwei Jahrzehnte nach dem Mauerfall deutlich...

We qualitatively match new economic geography (NEG) to stylized facts on German economic integration after 1989. We find that NEG may explain...

Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence, imposes some very...

Markov chain theory, which has frequently been applied to analyze income convergence, imposes restrictive assumptions on the data-generating...

The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is...