Regionalisation, Growth, and Economic Integration

✍ Scribed by Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp (auth.), George M. Korres (eds.)

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Series: Contributions to Economics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to analyse the process of regionalisation and to plot its future development. Regionalisation is a common feature of the changing territorial organisation of European states today. Regionalisation alone, however, cannot produce any of the benefits we attribute to it without looking into the conditions in which it occurs. Therefore, this book tackles the following questions, bringing together theory and empirical applications: What are the main determinants and implications for regional policy? How does economic policy affect the growth and integration process? Why is innovation important for regional economic development? Why is the regional dimension important for the innovation promotion? What has been our policy response so far and what lesson did we learn from it? And finally, what are our action lines for the future?

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Economic Integration and Labour Markets: Ways Forward....Pages 3-23
An Assessment of the Integration of Eastern European Economies in the European Union....Pages 25-38
Looking at the Monetary Integration: Modeling Interest Rate Transmission Dynamics in Greece. Is There any Structural Break After EMU?....Pages 39-57
How Harmful is International Tax Competition?....Pages 59-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Exchange Rate Uncertainty in Imperfectly Competitive Industries....Pages 77-99
Foreign Direct Investment: Explaining the Regional Location Determinants in South-Eastern European Countries....Pages 101-118
Starting with the Local - a Knowledge-Based Approach to Economic Integration....Pages 119-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Education, Research and Regional Economic Disparities in the European Union After 2004 Enlargement: Econometric Models and Policy Challenges....Pages 149-167
European Regional Convergence: Some Evidence for the Role of Information Communication Technologies....Pages 169-197
Regional Disparities and the Effects of Innovation Activities on Regional Integration....Pages 199-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Research and Technological Development Policy and Innovative Performance: The Greek Case Within the EU....Pages 229-250
Financial Autonomy of Local Governments: Case Studies of Finland and Poland....Pages 251-267
From Closed to Open Regionalism in Central America: a Preliminary Assessment of the Proposed Belize-Guatemala Free Trade Agreement....Pages 269-285
Aspects of Regional Social Governance. Welfare Reform in the US Implications for a Global Policy Against Exclusion....Pages 287-300
Back Matter....Pages 305-308

✦ Subjects

Regional Science; Development Economics; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics; European Integration; R & D/Technology Policy