The objective of current article is to assess EU regional economic development imbalance and its change, by implementing an indicator system of regional development disparities. The quantitative measurement problems of regional development imbalance have not received sufficient attention. Barro...

Regionen stehen unvermeidlich miteinander direkt oder indirekt in Konkurrenz. In erster Linie konkurrieren die Regionen um die Attrahierung von Kapital, um dem mobileren Teil der Einwohnerschaft eine attraktive Beschäftigung mit einem zufriedenstellenden Wohlstandsniveau anzubieten. Die großen...

Keywords: regional economic development; empirical assessment methods; European Union The objective of current article is to assess EU regional economic development imbalance and its change, by implementing an indicator system of regional development disparities. The quantitative measurement...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the theoretical, political and organizational bases of the territorial division of the country into municipalities and offer a research direction for identifying conceptual solutions to the development problems in Estonian municipalities. The paper focuses on...

Regionen stehen unvermeidlich miteinander direkt oder indirekt in Konkurrenz. In erster Linie konkurrieren die Regionen um die Attrahierung von Kapital, um dem mobileren Teil der Einwohnerschaft eine attraktive Beschäftigung mit einem zufriedenstellenden Wohlstandsniveau anzubieten. Die großen...

Although Estonia developed a functioning market economy, it has hardly succeeded in catching-up economically with the richer countries of the euro area. Correspondingly, the level of social security is still rather limited. To improve the income situation and enhance the social security systems...

Research and development (R&D) policy has to fulfil a central role in innovation policy since it consists of government sector measures that support R&D in order to initialise and promote innovation. The authors of this article discuss first the theoretical reasoning for government sector...

Wie gehören ein ordnungspolitischer Rahmen von Innovationssystemen, die ausgestaltende Innovationspolitik sowie Forschungs- und Entwicklungen der einzelnen Wirtschaftsakteure zusammen? Welche Möglichkeiten sollten Staaten und Unternehmen nutzen, um eine innovationsfreundliche Gesamtpolitik zu...

Estonia is widely regarded as a paramount example for a successful transformation of a socialist economic system to a functioning market economy. Against the backdrop of this positive image which contrasts strongly with the crisis scenarios in Southern Europe the remaining problems of Estonia...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows in the world have increased rapidly during the last decade. Most of the FDI inflows are targeted to developed countries (78% in 1999, about fifth of the flows are going to developing countries and Central and Eastern European transition countries are the...