Kieler Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitik No. 12: The trend decline of productivity growth in Germany is not due to a single cause but is...

This paper investigates the role of personal relationships for doing business in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China. First, it...

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

The paper starts with a description of major reforms of EU policy in the network industries. Based on the normative economics of...

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

In Germany the legal planning and approval processes for airport expansion projects are regularly heavily politicized and legal...

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

This paper investigates the role of personal relationships for doing business in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China (GPRD). First,...

In the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness of 2005 and related initiatives donor countries promised to render foreign aid more...

This chapter analyses an original firm-level dataset collected by our own Hong Kong (HK) Company Survey 2007 to investigate agility...

This paper investigates the levels and the recent development of the spatial concentration as well as the co-agglomeration of the...

It is open to question whether the intensified worldwide competition for FDI has reduced its traditionally strong concentration in a...

In Taiwan, since the early 2000s the growth rate of real wages has been very low and has been even negative for high-skilled workers....

Over the past decade the scale of higher education in China has expanded substantially. Regional development policies attempted to...

Over the past decade the scale of higher education in China has expanded substantially. Regional development policies have attempted...

We analyze the concentration of FDI in India at the district level, based on project-specific location choices since the reform...

We analyze the concentration of FDI in India at the district level, based on project-specific location choices since the reform...