Die regionale Ungleichheit wird aus typischem Verhalten der Unternehmen insbesondere in der Informationsgewinnung und -verarbeitung
erklärt und empirisch nachgewiesen.
Keywords:Das Altern von Wirtschaftsregionen. Neue empirische Evidenz für die Regionszyklushypothese; The Ageing of Economic Regions
Forschungsbereich:Regionalökonomie und räumliche Analyse
Sprache:Deutsch
The Ageing of Economic Regions
Regional disparities can be seen as a result of diverging adaptability which is essentially due to externalities concerning
the collecting and processing of information. The regional cycle hypothesis claims that diseconomies of information may originate
from the very process of growth, causing a turning point in the regional development and leading to sclerosis. Evidence in
support of this hypothesis is provided by systematic differences in economic behaviour in two regions of similar sectoral
composition but strikingly different performance.
