RAL3 workshop in Vienna, WIIW, 2-4 February 2006
Relocation: What Matters? Competition or/and Co-ordination
Submitted by chaves on 7 February, 2006 - 08:18.
With respect to relocation (delocalisation) issues two attitudes can be contrasted. According to the most standard one, relocation does not create any problem when full competition prevails in product, labour, and capital markets. read more »
Toward an understanding of industrial development from an evolutionary perspective
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 1 February, 2006 - 22:02.
The use of agent-based modelling allows to analyse macroeconomic behaviour as an outcome of heterogeneous micro behaviour and interactions. read more »
An Outline of Evolutionary Growth Model Building for V4 Group
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 1 February, 2006 - 21:56.
The implications of the innovative and technological capability-accumulation paths for the inter-country differences in operational performance improvement in the V4 group from their evolutionary perspective in EU25 are central to this paper. read more »
The Technological Position of European Countries in Historical Perspective: Catching Up, Agglomeration and Path-Dependency
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 1 February, 2006 - 21:50.
This paper investigates whether there has been a long run tendency for technological activity to agglomerate or diffuse across European countries over the period 1890-1995. The issue is discussed with reference to the literature on convergence in growth theory and the cumulative and differentiated nature of technological change in evolutionary economics. read more »
The Growth of Industrial Sectors: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 31 January, 2006 - 10:09.
In this paper, we study the growth rates of 4-digit sectors in U.S. manufacturing. Two measures of size (value of shipments, value added) are considered, for each of the 38 years (1959-1996) of a sample of 458 4-digit sectors, drawn from the NBER Manufacturing Productivity database. read more »
Competitiveness and market shares in High tech Industries: a comparative study between US and EMU
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 27 January, 2006 - 17:30.
Technology dynamics and macroeconomic policies in the accession countries
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 27 January, 2006 - 17:20.
There is an abundance of studies on the way technological change influences macroeconomic growth, but the question how macroeconomic policies affect technological change is largely unexplored. read more »
Knowledge and technology diffusion, international specialisation and competitiveness of the new EU Member Countries.
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 25 January, 2006 - 08:15.
The paper addresses the international specialisation and competitiveness of the new EU member countries over the last decade, with a focus on the role of knowledge and technology diffusion in upgrading their trade performance. read more »
Simulating the Evolution of Localised Industrial Clusters - An Identification of the Basic Mechanisms
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 24 January, 2006 - 09:48.
Localised industrial clusters have received much attention in economic research in the last decade. They are seen as one of the reasons for the economic success of certain regions in comparison to others. read more »
Technological Specialization and the Composition of Export flows - An analysis of Swedish Regions' Trade with Europe
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 24 January, 2006 - 09:32.
The present paper examines regional technological specialization and its effect on trade flows. read more »
Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: evidence from French manufacturing
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 18 January, 2006 - 21:29.
This work explores basic properties of the size and growth rates distributions of firms at the aggregate and disaggregate levels. Using an extensive dataset on French manufacturing firms, we investigate which properties of firm size distributions and growth dynamics are robust under disaggregation. read more »
Attract FDI! - A Universal Golden Rule? Empirical Evidence for Europe and Asia
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 18 January, 2006 - 21:12.
In this paper we address the question whether FDI is an important channel for productivity catching-up or whether FDI itself is attracted by productivity growth. This has important implications for industrial policy measures as well as for specialisation structures and the development of comparative advantages over time. read more »
Do Important Home Made Innovations Affect Productivity Growth? Some Industry Level Explorations
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 5 January, 2006 - 21:08.
International differences in productivity performance are often attributed to differences in innovative performance. Much empirical work supports this contention, but problems in quantifying innovative output prevent researchers from drawing a clear picture. read more »
Macroeconomic effects of the geography of technological change
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 2 January, 2006 - 22:29.
Integrating space into the framework of mainstream economic theory by the “new economic geography” is a very recent development of economics. Many of the contributions in this area are theoretical and only few of them follow an empirical approach. read more »
