Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German States
Different regional economic theories come to different conclusions with regard to the impact of (state) policies on the economic prosperity of regions. This article provides empirical evidence that determinants like geography, urbanization, industrial mix and social capital explain 68 percent of the...
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| description | Different regional economic theories come to different conclusions with regard to the impact of (state) policies on the economic prosperity of regions. This article provides empirical evidence that determinants like geography, urbanization, industrial mix and social capital explain 68 percent of the variation in GDP per worker among West German regions. One element that all these factors have in common is that they cannot, at least in the short run, be influenced by state policies. Determinants like infrastructure and human capital, both of which can be influenced by state policies, only account for another 11 percent of the variation in GDP. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-339b0e1942f543f18a0e0bd09af77b1d2025-01-22T10:55:03ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Central European Public Administration Review2591-22402591-22592013-03-0111110.17573/ipar.2013.1.a02Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German StatesThomas Döring0Lorenz Blume1University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, DarmstadtPhilipps-University of Marburg, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, MarburgDifferent regional economic theories come to different conclusions with regard to the impact of (state) policies on the economic prosperity of regions. This article provides empirical evidence that determinants like geography, urbanization, industrial mix and social capital explain 68 percent of the variation in GDP per worker among West German regions. One element that all these factors have in common is that they cannot, at least in the short run, be influenced by state policies. Determinants like infrastructure and human capital, both of which can be influenced by state policies, only account for another 11 percent of the variation in GDP.https://journals.uni-lj.si/CEPAR/article/view/20377regional economic developmentstate policiesfiscal equalization scheme |
| spellingShingle | Thomas Döring Lorenz Blume Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German States Central European Public Administration Review regional economic development state policies fiscal equalization scheme |
| title | Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German States |
| title_full | Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German States |
| title_fullStr | Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German States |
| title_full_unstemmed | Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German States |
| title_short | Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German States |
| title_sort | differences in regional economic prosperity do state policies matter an empirical investigation of data from the german states |
| topic | regional economic development state policies fiscal equalization scheme |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/CEPAR/article/view/20377 |
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