Regional Growth and Regional Policy Within the Framework of European Integration Proceedings of a Conference on the Occasion of 25 Years Institute for Regional Research at the University of Kiel 1995

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Peschel, Karin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Series:Contributions to Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Inequalities and Mobility in the Danish Welfare State
  • 1 Summary
  • 2 Small Differences
  • 3 The Development
  • 4 Localization and Commuting
  • 5 Concentration of Trade and Industry
  • 6 Regression Analysis of Geographic Patterns
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Considering Regional Effects of Transport Infrastructure Investments in Privately Financed Projects
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Public and Private Interest in the Transport Infrastructure
  • 3 Need for Private Investment Capital
  • 4 The Conventional Scheme of Planning Large Infrastructure Projects
  • 5 Alternative Schemes for the Planning Process and for the Investment Appraisal
  • 6 Assessment of Regional Effects
  • 7 Project Appraisal and the Financing Scheme
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Institute for Regional Research Publications since 1993
  • The Regional Economic Structure of the European Union: an Analysis of Long-Term Developments
  • 1 Introduction, Summary and Conclusions
  • 2 Simple Indicators
  • 3 Composite Indicators
  • 4 Ways of Improvement
  • The Role of the Regions in the European Union — The Future of the Committee of the Regions
  • 1 Abstract
  • 2 Introduction
  • 3 Evolution of EU Regional Policy
  • 4 Regional Policy of the European Union
  • 5 Regional Policy or a Policy of the Regions
  • 6 The Committee of the Regions
  • 7 Other Forms of Regional Participation
  • 8 The Future of the Committee of the Regions
  • 9 The Future Role of the Regions
  • Regional Policy and Federalism in the Process of International Integration
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Internationalisation Process of Firms
  • 3 The Microeconomic Characteristics of a Network
  • 4 Federalism and a New “Market Oriented” Regional Industrial Policy
  • 5 Federalismand the Network Paradigm
  • 6 Conclusions
  • Regional Science in Germany — From the Beginnings to the Present —
  • 1 The Early Roots
  • 2 The “Quantum Leap” to Regional Science
  • 3 The Main Fields of Emphasis in German Regional Research
  • 4 Regional Science at the Time of the IfR’s Foundation
  • 5 Regional Development with Changing Perspectives
  • 6 Current Challenges to Regional Science
  • 7 European Economic and Monetary Union
  • 8 Deepening and Widening the EU
  • 9 New Visions
  • Economic Integration and the Space Economy: Lessons from New Theory
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Growth Theory
  • 3 Location Theory
  • 4 Final Remarks
  • Testing Models, Describing Reality or Neither? Convergence and Divergence of Regional Growth Rates in Europe during the 1980s
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Convergence/Divergence Debate
  • 3 Test or Measure?
  • 4 The Present Approach
  • 5 The Definition of Region
  • 6 The Model
  • 7 The Results
  • 8 Discussion and Conclusions