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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.

Ann Hipp looks back with satisfaction on the final meeting of the scientific network funded by the DFG over three years. The final event took place at ifo Dresden and was organized and chaired by her.

Christian Bergholz and co-authors from the University of Hanover and ZEW in Mannheim have investigated the conditions under which digital companies are founded and have now published the results in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights.

Jan Cornelius Peters presented current research findings on regional wage differences at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. This year's congress of the European Economic Association and the European meeting of the Econometric Society took place there from August 26 to 30.