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

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...

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

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...

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

Kiel Policy Brief No. 12

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

We explore to what extent key functions in manufacturing are spatially clustered with, or dispersed from, each other within...

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

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

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

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

We test a New Economic Geography (NEG) model for U.S. counties, employing a new strategy that allows us to bring the full NEG model to...

This paper establishes eight stylized facts on the evolution of the localization of economic activity across industries and regions in...

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

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

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

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