The geography of innovation traditionally concentrates on localised knowledge spillovers, yet neglects collaboration networks as a means to access knowledge outside the region.  read more »

Iain Begg published a paper entitled "Structural policy and economic convergence" in CESIfo Forum, issue 1 of 2008. This paper was written as a contribution to DIME WP 3.2 (and is a formal deliverable in the WP, D325).

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The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation output? The usual approaches implicitly assume that higher innovation outputs per inhabitant, employee, or R&D employee can be assigned to a region.  read more »

We study location choices and firm performance in the German machine tool industry, focusing on the forced migration of East German firms after World War II. Our analysis of location choices supports earlier findings that industry agglomerations attract further entrants.  read more »

The present study examines the economic development of the NUTS-2 level regions in the EU-27 from 1995 to 2003. It focuses on income and employment developments in the regions of the new EU Member States (NMS) and compares the results to the developments in the regions of Northern as well as Southern EU countries.  read more »

This paper discusses the possibility of a spatial hierarchy of innovation and growth dynamics in Europe. A spatial hierarchy is understood as a geographical clustering of regions, where important differences exist in terms of innovation and growth dynamics between the clusters  read more »

This work explores the spatial distribution of productive activities in the Italian manufacturing industry. We propose an econometric model which tries to disentangle location-specific from sectoral drivers in the dynamic process of spatial agglomeration.  read more »

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 characterize the aggregate dynamics and are, at the same time, robust under disaggregation.  read more »

Different formulae for the decomposition of aggregate productivity levels and changes are applied to German manufacturing firms that pertain to 11 different industries at a roughly two-digit level observed over the period 1981-1998.  read more »

In this work we investigate two crucial dimensions of firms’ structure and dynamics, that is profitability and productivity performance.  read more »

Recent finance literature highlights the role of technological change in increasing firm specific and aggregate stock price volatility (Campbell et al. 2001, Shiller 2000, Pastor and Veronesi 2005). Yet innovation data is not used in these analyses, leaving the direct relationship between innovation and volatility untested.  read more »

Sunk costs due to entry into foreign markets have been used as the main justification the relationship between firm productive efficiency and exports. We use a large-scale firm-level dataset of French manufacturing firms to evaluate how sunk costs affect the productivity dynamics of new exporters.  read more »

This paper analyses market selection in French manufacturing goods markets over the last decade, under the hypothesis that the competitive challenges which firms have to face may change along its life cycle. We find that on average, exiting firms display below-average performance levels in terms of profitability and productivity.  read more »

Using firm-level data from the third Community Innovation Survey, the paper investigates effects of foreign ownership on research and development (R&D) activity carried out by innovative firms in the Czech Republic.  read more »

In this paper, we analyse post-entry and pre-exit performance of French Manufacturing firms using a dataset covering 14 industries over the period 1990-2002. Our purpose is to shed lights on the working of market selection mechanisms within French Manufacturing industries.  read more »