Search results for "regional studies"
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The determinants of FDI: a new network-based approach
2022
This article investigates the determinants of FDI at sub-national level. It recognizes that MNEsModified Letter Turned Comma foreign activities are organized in networks of strongly interconnected, but geographically dispersed affiliates. This implies a different approach to the analysis of the determinants of FDI, which should focus on contextual factors able to stimulate economic relations at distance. Methodologically, we use a gravity-type model and different regression techniques with a new dataset on networks of FDI involving German and Italian regions. We find evidence that technologically proximate regions sharing the same industry profile are more likely to experience positive and …
Regional financial development and bank competition: effects on firms' growth
2009
Fernandez de Guevara J. and Maudos J. Regional financial development and bank competition: effects on firms' growth, Regional Studies. This paper analyses the effect of regional financial development and bank competition on firms' growth using the Spanish provinces as a testing ground. The results show that firms in industries with a greater dependence on external finance grow faster in more financially developed provinces. The results also show that bank monopoly power has an inverted-‘U’ effect on firms' growth, suggesting that market power has its highest effect at intermediate values. The effect is heterogeneous among firms according to the financial dependence of the industry to which …
Józef Madeja (1899-1975)
2017
Józef Madeja was born on 5 April 1899 in Opole. He attended and completed a primary school and a Realschule in Opole as well as the teachers’ college in Pyskowice, a small town near Gliwice. He began his first professional work as a teacher at a German primary school near Opole in 1919. Following the split of Upper Silesia, Józef Madeja, who declared himself Polish, moved to Katowice in 1921. He worked as a teacher at primary schools situated in the Polish part of Upper Silesia.He studied pedagogy at the Jagiellonian University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation in the fi eld of psychology. He also worked as a teacher in teachers’ seminaries and at the Pedagogical Institute in Katowi…
Вивчення країн та регiонiв як найвагомiших одиниць сoцiальнo-пoлiтiчнoї opгaнiзaцiї cвiту. Кaфeдрi крaїнoзнaвcтвa i мiжнapoднoгo туpизму–16 poкiв
2017
Theoretical and methodological problems of country studies and regional studies in the context of creating and functioning of the Department of Country Studies and International Tourism at the Faculty of International Relations of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv are being researched in the article. In the rather complicated current geopolitical situation it is especially important for Ukraine to strengthen its status quo on the intemational arena, as well as to build its own system of intemational relations that are focused on the govemment interest. Therefore political elite of Ukraine should have its own vision of every country’s part in global regional political economic and cult…
Regional studies and political science. The theory of the dual unity of Silesia
2021
This paper concerns the status of regional studies in political science research. Analysing the theory of the dual unity of Silesia presented by the Polish political scientist Józef Kokot, the author attempts to formulate theoretical criteria that make a region an object of interest for political scientists and regional studies, a subdiscipline of political science.
The Relationship between Public Value and Change : Case Study on Public Value Creation in Relation to the Regional Government, Health and Social Serv…
2019
Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 A break first from Traditional Public Administration (TPA) and later New Public Management (NPM) has gradually offered new angles to the governance. For instance, Moorecreated an analogue to the private value creation,and as a result, the ideology of public value creation has emerged worldwide.Since then, scholars have developed a conceptual understanding of public value. Compared to the NPM public value management embraces post-competitive achievements and broader governmental goals. Yet, the empirical research on public value management, especially in the Finnish context, is rather unknown.This st…
Estimating Regional Input Coefficients and Multipliers: The Use of FLQ is Not a Gamble
2014
Flegg A. T. and Tohmo T. Estimating regional input coefficients and multipliers: the use of FLQ is not a gamble, Regional Studies. This paper re-examines the Finnish evidence presented by Lehtonen and Tykkylainen on the use of location quotients (LQs) in estimating regional input coefficients and multipliers. They argue that the choice of an LQ-based method is a gamble and that there is no single method that can be recommended for general use. It is contended here that this evidence is erroneous and that the FLQ (Flegg's location quotient) yields results far superior to those from competing formulae, so it should provide a satisfactory way of generating an initial set of input coefficients.…