Future of the European Structural Funds in Northrhine-Westfalia

Facing an intensive discussion of the future development of EU Structural Policy following 2013, the State Chamber and the Ministry of Economics, Labour and Technology of North Rhine Westfalia commissioned the 'Study on European Structural Policy – Carrying on the subgoal „Regional competitiveness“'.
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New Project: Formal and effective incidenzce of federal means exerting spatial effects

The evaluation and conceptional development of the estimation approach on formal and effective incidence of federal means with spatial effects is a new project on behalf of the Federal office for Building and Regional Planning (Bonn).
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Ruhr Economic Papers

Recently the Ruhr Economic Papers, edited by the economic faculties of the universities of Bochum, Dortmund and Duisberg-Essen, the RGS ECON and the RWI Essen, published two papers of the GEFRA: "Trade-FDI Linkages in a System of Gravity Equations for German Regional Data" by Timo Mitze, Björn Alecke and Gerhard Untiedt as well as "Endogeneity in Panel Data Models with Time-Varying and Time-Fixed Regressors: To IV or not IV?" by Timo Mitze.
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New Project: Appraisal and monitoring of the implementation of the EFRD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The state chamber of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern engaged GEFRA for the project: "Assessment and external monitoring of the implementation of the European Funds for regional Development in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern".
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New publication on trade with Central and East European Countries

The journal Osteuropa-Wirtschaft published an overview paper from Björn Alecke, Timo Mitze and Gerhard Untiedt on German trade with the new EU member states from Central and East European Countries.
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