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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.

Petrik Runst presents research findings at the annual meeting of economists from the ifh Göttingen, the Chambers of Crafts, and the Central Association of German Crafts.

A new publication in Regional Science and Urban Economics by Jan Cornelius Peters and other authors shows that the wages of workers in rural and urban areas grow at different rates and that this is related to the type of work experience gained.

At the 22nd meeting of the RKW Advisory Board "Start-ups" in Eschborn, Christian Hundt gave a keynote speech on the characteristics of start-up activity in rural areas and then discussed political options for action with the members of the Advisory Board.

The AfD vote share is influenced not only by cultural factors but also by a variety of regional factors, such as aging and regional emigration. When these are controlled for, the East-West difference partially fades, and previously unknown regional patterns can be identified instead.