Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbours Perform Better? A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions;Les régions entourées de voisins entrepreneuriaux, font-elles mieux? Une façon économétrique géographique pour les régions allemandes

Regional Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 866-882

  Pijnenburg, Katharina ^a   Kholodilin, Konstantin A ^a  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship capital; Regional output; Spatial weight matrix

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; COMPETITIVENESS; ECONOMETRICS; ENTREPRENEUR; MATRIX; NEOCLASSICAL THEORY; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

GERMANY;

EID: 84927802160     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2012.697143     Document Type: Article

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