Taiwan and South Korea have so far come through the corona crisis much better than many other economies. The keys to success have included pandemic-experienced and efficiently acting authorities, excellent medical care and research, and the use of...

This study on productivity trends in Germany covers a broad discussion of measurement problems (both conceptually and empirically), an comprehensive comparison of productivity patterns between different countries (on the aggregate level as well as on...

This paper investigates the levels and the recent development of the spatial concentration as well as the co-agglomeration of the innovation activities (R&D inputs as well as outputs) from industrial innovators (medium sized and large enterprises)...

This paper investigates the role of personal relationships for doing business in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China (GPRD). First, it discusses the interplay of formal and informal (relationship-based) institutions based on institutional economics....

This chapter analyses an original firm-level dataset collected by our own Hong Kong (HK) Company Survey 2007 to investigate agility patterns applied by HK companies in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in organising relations to their producers in the PRD...

Based on original survey data, this paper analyses and compares the role of personal traits and networks in determining entrepreneurial intentions of students in Hong Kong and in Guangzhou. The two cities are culturally closely related but differ...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 142: Taiwan and South Korea are generally considered to be more successful than many others in containing the spread of Covid-19.