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At expert forum no. 25, academics and experts discussed how cultural activities can strengthen participation in rural areas. The economic situation of arts and culture professionals, whose activities are partly voluntary work but also partly self-employed work, was also highlighted.

Jan Cornelius Peters and others are organizing the special session “New insights into agglomeration (dis)economies: effects and underlying mechanisms” for the annual congress 2025 of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA). Contributions can be submitted until 25.02.2025.

In his speech at Harvard Business School in Boston, Christian Hundt presented research findings on the role of institutions for start-up activity in England and Germany.

While the quarter-annual issues of the "Figures & Facts" series spotlight selected topics, the December edition focuses on the overarching question of how rural areas in Germany are developing economically.

Article in the Wirtschaftsdienst by Nadine Riedel and Martin Simmler (WI) discusses the need for reforms in the German fiscal federal system and presents reform options.

A new publication in the journal European Planning Studies by Alexander Kopka and others examines how the regional embedding of various key technologies influences the emergence of regional knowledge.

The new publication by Dominik Frankenberg estimates the expected medium-term effects of demographic trends on the municipal financial situation.

On the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Dr. Martin Junkernheinrich, the festschrift on fundamental issues of financial and budgetary policy, edited by Dominik Frankenberg and others, was presented at the Ruhr Parliament (Essen).

Rural areas have certain disadvantages when it comes to attracting R&D-intensive companies. However, initial results of a study by Petrik Runst show that innovative companies without R&D are less affected by these disadvantages because rural innovators focus more frequently on process innovations.

At the invitation of Charlotta Mellander, Jan Cornelius Peters spent some days as a guest at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE) at Jönköping University in Sweden. Among other things, he presented a recent research paper on regional wage differentials.