1. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Sub-National Government Fiscal Discipline: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

    Recent theoretical research suggests that financing sub-national governments’ expenditure out of own revenue sources is linked to more responsible budgeting, because the financial implications of spending…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2015

    The Impact of Captive Innovation Offshoring on the Effectiveness of Organizational Adaptation

    We analyze the effects of captive offshoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their organizational structures. Basing our arguments on the complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Finding Starting-Values for the Estimation of Vector STAR Models

    This paper focuses on finding starting-values for the estimation of Vector STAR models. Based on a Monte Carlo study, different procedures are evaluated. Their performance is assessed with respect to model fit…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Infrastructure and Entrepreneurship

    This paper is one of the first studies to examine the link between infrastructure and entrepreneurship. Because infrastructure can enhance connectivity and linkages that facilitate the recognition of…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Demographic Ageing and the Polarization of Regions - An Exploratory Space-Time Analysis

    Demographic ageing is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. Contributing to this debate, we explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the…