regions

This paper studies 46 major city-regions across Europe. The sectoral structure and changes in the sectoral structure of city-regions are studied using data from CE’s European Regional Database, itself based on Eurostat’s Regio database. The data analysis attempts to explain city-region performance by drawing parallels between sectoral structure and economic performance.

This paper examines the nature of interregional competition and complementarity in Greece. Covering the 1975-2002 period, the analysis provides a picture of the interregional interactions by focusing on derived linkages between the regional economies.

This paper focuses on the impact of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) concepts on location preferences of office keeping organisations. To measure this impact, a stated preference experiment has been conducted in the Netherlands and involves office keeping organisations in selected city regions. The paper describes the first results of a model describing the attractiveness of location profiles, which are based on location preference attributes, and the role of ITS in these profiles.

This paper analyzes the empirical relationship between regional specialization and fiscal decentralization for a panel of 15 Member States of the European Union, controlling for regional and other institutional determinants. The analysis shows that rather autonomous regions tend to diverse their production structure in order to insure against adverse supply shocks.

The main purpose of this paper is to present some analyses of the regional labour mobility in terms of growth of employment focusing on the number and quality of the persons that enter and leave the local labour markets.

This paper develops a methodology to evaluate the impact of RDAs in comparison with the total increase in regional economic growth and changes.

This paper analyses the effect of industry, regional and firm level characteristics on the post entry performance of newly founded businesses by means of an econometric survival time model. The data relates to West German states during 1993-2002 period.

Based on the existing literature, this paper aims at measuring and describing the innovative capability of Italian regional systems, so as to improve the comprehension of this phenomenon as well as of its effects.

In this paper, the authors propose a methodology based on maximum entropy econometrics to incorporate additional information to select the unique shift-share formula that fits the information best. They illustrate the method empirically by investigating the sources of change of employment growth in Spanish regions, 1986-2000.

This study employs a dynamic multiregional computable general equilibrium model to investigate supply-side as well as demand-side effects. CGE modelling allows simulation of the associated productivity effects, while the dynamic features of the model allow for consequent effects on the regions population and capital stock growth rates to be taken into account, according to the authors.